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+package com.nitobi.phonegap;
+
+import java.io.EOFException;
+import java.io.FileOutputStream;
+import java.io.InputStream;
+
+import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
+import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
+import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
+import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient;
+
+public class HttpHandler {
+
+	public Boolean get(String url, String file)
+	{
+		HttpEntity entity = getHttpEntity(url);
+		try {
+			writeToDisk(entity, file);
+		} catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); return false; }
+		try {
+			entity.consumeContent();
+		} catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); return false; }
+		return true;
+	}
+	
+	private HttpEntity getHttpEntity(String url)
+	/**
+	 * get the http entity at a given url
+	 */
+	{
+		HttpEntity entity=null;
+		try {
+			DefaultHttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
+			HttpGet httpget = new HttpGet(url);
+			HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httpget);
+			entity = response.getEntity();
+		} catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); return null; }
+		return entity;
+	}
+	
+	private void writeToDisk(HttpEntity entity, String file) throws EOFException
+	/**
+	 * writes a HTTP entity to the specified filename and location on disk
+	 */
+	{  
+		int i=0;
+		String FilePath="/sdcard/" + file;
+		try {
+			InputStream in = entity.getContent();
+			byte buff[] = new byte[1024];    
+			FileOutputStream out=
+				new FileOutputStream(FilePath);
+			do {
+				int numread = in.read(buff);
+				if (numread <= 0)
+                   	break;
+				out.write(buff, 0, numread);
+				System.out.println("numread" + numread);
+				i++;
+			} while (true);
+			out.flush();
+			out.close();	
+		} catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); }
+	}
+}