response parameters from an external url

[Susan Laing]

Can anyone help me.  My problem is that we need to access images from an external web site and return them into our own web pages.  To do this we formulate a URL including username, password and some other image specific information.  When we call this URL we are given back the url to the image we need.     My problem is that I dont know how to do this from within servlets.  I have trudged the archives but all the search criteria I have entered has come back with nothing.   If someone would be so kind as to point me in the right direction, I will read up and find out how to do it myself.  I have only had experience of sendRedirect() when calling external url's, but have never had to pick up a returned parameter.   Thanks in advance.   Best regards   Susan Laing