in the following code, i am trying to perform a GET operation on a webservice that i have coded and hosted on localhost. The method OpenHttpConnection is working just fine because i have put toasts in between to check if there was sth wrong in there. the app crashes when i try to convert the input stream into a string using the bufferreader. Please have a look and see if you can spot the error.

Thanks :)

```
public class ServicetestActivity extends Activity {

public static String iStream_to_String(InputStream is1)
{
     BufferedReader rd = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is1));
     String line;
     StringBuilder sb =  new StringBuilder();
     try {
        while ((line = rd.readLine()) != null) {
                sb.append(line);
         }
         rd.close();

    } catch (IOException e) {
        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
     String contentOfMyInputStream = sb.toString();
     return contentOfMyInputStream;
}

/** Called when the activity is first created. */
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.main);
    InputStream is=null;
    try {
         is=OpenHttpConnection("http://localhost/webservice.php?device=ayaz");
    } catch (IOException e) {
        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
    String line= iStream_to_String(is);
    Toast.makeText(this, line, Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show(); 
}

    private InputStream OpenHttpConnection(String link) throws IOException {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        InputStream inputStream = null;
        int response = -1;
        Toast.makeText(this, "1", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
        URL url = new URL(link);
        URLConnection connection = url.openConnection();
        Toast.makeText(this, "2", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
        if (!(connection instanceof HttpURLConnection))
          throw new IOException("Not a HTTP connection");
        try {
            HttpURLConnection httpURLConnection = (HttpURLConnection) connection;
            Toast.makeText(this, "3", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
            httpURLConnection.setAllowUserInteraction(false);
            Toast.makeText(this, "4", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
            httpURLConnection.setInstanceFollowRedirects(true);
            httpURLConnection.setRequestMethod("GET");
            httpURLConnection.connect();
            response = httpURLConnection.getResponseCode();
            if (response == HttpURLConnection.HTTP_OK) {
                inputStream = httpURLConnection.getInputStream();
            }

        } catch (Exception e) {
            // TODO: handle exception
            throw new IOException("Error connecting");
        }
        return inputStream;}

// see http://androidsnippets.com/executing-a-http-get-request-with-httpclient

```

}

Also the log cat is as follows:

```
10-14 20:54:13.660: E/AndroidRuntime(1348): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
10-14 20:54:13.660: E/AndroidRuntime(1348): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{web.service/web.service.ServicetestActivity}: java.lang.NullPointerException
10-14 20:54:13.660: E/AndroidRuntime(1348):     at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1647)
10-14 20:54:13.660: E/AndroidRuntime(1348):     at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1663)
10-14 20:54:13.660: E/AndroidRuntime(1348):     at android.app.ActivityThread.access$1500(ActivityThread.java:117)
10-14 20:54:13.660: E/AndroidRuntime(1348):     at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:931)
10-14 20:54:13.660: E/AndroidRuntime(1348):     at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
10-14 20:54:13.660: E/AndroidRuntime(1348):     at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:130)
10-14 20:54:13.660: E/AndroidRuntime(1348):     at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:3683)
10-14 20:54:13.660: E/AndroidRuntime(1348):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
10-14 20:54:13.660: E/AndroidRuntime(1348):     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:507)
10-14 20:54:13.660: E/AndroidRuntime(1348):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:839)
10-14 20:54:13.660: E/AndroidRuntime(1348):     at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:597)
10-14 20:54:13.660: E/AndroidRuntime(1348):     at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
10-14 20:54:13.660: E/AndroidRuntime(1348): Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
10-14 20:54:13.660: E/AndroidRuntime(1348):     at java.io.Reader.<init>(Reader.java:65)
10-14 20:54:13.660: E/AndroidRuntime(1348):     at java.io.InputStreamReader.<init>(InputStreamReader.java:122)
10-14 20:54:13.660: E/AndroidRuntime(1348):     at java.io.InputStreamReader.<init>(InputStreamReader.java:59)
10-14 20:54:13.660: E/AndroidRuntime(1348):     at web.service.ServicetestActivity.iStream_to_String(ServicetestActivity.java:31)
10-14 20:54:13.660: E/AndroidRuntime(1348):     at web.service.ServicetestActivity.onCreate(ServicetestActivity.java:65)
10-14 20:54:13.660: E/AndroidRuntime(1348):     at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1047)
10-14 20:54:13.660: E/AndroidRuntime(1348):     at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1611)
10-14 20:54:13.660: E/AndroidRuntime(1348):     ... 11 more

```