This article looks like exactly what i was looking for. thank you

On Jul 7, 9:01 pm, Charlie Collins <[email protected]> wrote:
> Check for the status of the network before making the call, and also
> set a connection timeout in case it drops after/during:
>
> http://stuffthathappens.com/blog/2007/09/10/urlopenstream-might-leave...
>
> You might want to look at the Apache HttpClient stuff Android comes
> with too, you have a much more robust library there that can handle
> all kinds of things, as opposed to raw URL class and streams.
>
> Here is an example of using the HttpClient 
> stuff:http://code.google.com/p/and-bookworm/source/browse/trunk/src/com/tot...
>
> On Jul 7, 2:54 pm, Boozel <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > I'm trying to get an HTTP response using
> > BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new
> > InputStreamReader(url.openStream()));
> > but if no internet connection is present the app hangs here.
> > Can any one give me a way to prevent this?
> > Thanks

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