[SOLVED] Fatal Error :1:1: Content is not allowed in prolog

Fatal Error :1:1: Content is not allowed in prolog

I'm using Java and i'm trying to get XML document from some http link. Code I'm using is:

URL url = new URL(link);

HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection)url.openConnection();
connection.setRequestMethod("GET");
connection.connect();
Document doc = null;

CountInputStream in = new CountInputStream(url.openStream());
doc = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance().newDocumentBuilder().parse(in);

Don't pay attention at CountInputStream, it's some special class acting like regular input stream.

Using the code above, I sometimes got error Fatal Error :1:1: Content is not allowed in prolog. I assume that is has something to do with bad format of xml, but I have no idea how to fix it.

Solution

I'm turning my comment to an answer, so it can be accepted and this question no longer remains unanswered.

The most likely cause of this is a malformed response, which includes characters before the initial <?xml …>. So please have a look at the document as transferred over HTTP, and fix this on the server side.