Executing a HTTP GET request easily with HttpClient & a fluent builder?

This code executes a GET request using the fluent builder for the org.apache.http.client.HttpClient

// create a new HttpClient
final HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();  


// execute a GET-request and get the response as a String
final String response = 
    Http.get("http://somesite.com")
        .use(client)                // use this HttpClient (required)
        .charset("UTF-8")           // set the encoding... (optional)
        .followRedirects(true)      // ...follow redirects (optional)
        .asString();                // execute request


// see http://code.google.com/p/httpclient-fluent-builder/