<p>When you get a badge or aren't logged in to stack overflow there's a groovy little notification bar at the top of the page that lets you know there's something going on.</p>

<p>I know the SOflow team use JQuery, but I was wondering if anyone knew of an implementation of the same style of notification system in asp.net AJAX.</p>

<p>On a side note, what's the "official" name for this style of notification bar?</p>

I'm currently using this:
```
```
String content = null;
URLConnection connection = null;
try {
  connection =  new URL("http://www.google.com").openConnection();
  Scanner scanner = new Scanner(connection.getInputStream());
  scanner.useDelimiter("\\Z");
  content = scanner.next();
  scanner.close();
}catch ( Exception ex ) {
    ex.printStackTrace();
}
System.out.println(content);
```
```
But not sure if there's a better way.