on">Check the Network Connection</a></li>
  <li><a href="#AsyncTask">Perform Network Operations on a Separate Thread</a></li>
  <li><a href="#download">Connect and Download Data</a></li>
  <li><a href="#stream">Convert the InputStream to a String</a></li>
  
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