Generating a network request with Java

[Legendary]

I'm not going to lie, I'm doing some homework right now and part of the assignment is writing a servlet that will generate a network request and download a file from a given website. I just need to know how to generate the request and store the file from the link.

 

[mundane]

java.net.URL, you should be able to grab the stream from that request and write it to disk.