/* imports required */

import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.net.ConnectException;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.URL;

/* static variables required */
	private static final int TEN_SECONDS_IN_MILLISECONDS = 10000;
	private static final String UTF_8 = "UTF-8";


/* Code to make request and get reader back */
	URL xmlUrl = new URL("https://srr.carleton.ca/attendance/request?parameter1=dog");		
	HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection)xmlUrl.openConnection(); 
	connection.setConnectTimeout(TEN_SECONDS_IN_MILLISECONDS);
	connection.setReadTimeout(TEN_SECONDS_IN_MILLISECONDS);
	InputStreamReader reader = new InputStreamReader(getConnection().getInputStream(), UTF_8);
	
	
/* Links to examples of reading from connection */
https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/networking/urls/readingWriting.html
https://androidcookbook.com/Recipe.seam?recipeId=2217