Accessing protected URL in Java

Come through an elegant code yesterday. Somehow the content needs to be accessed from the database server which is password protected. A simple URL query would fetch the content. I've tried Apache commons. I could managed to access the content via plain java.net classes works for me pretty smoothly.

here is how

Authenticator.setDefault(new MyAuthenticator("user","password"));

URL url = new URL("http://localhost:5300/database?_query='for $a in collection('test')/types return $a'");
InputStream resultStream =url.openStream();

And the simple inner class

class MyAuthenticator extends Authenticator {
  private String username, password;

  public MyAuthenticator(String username, String password) {
      this.username = username;
      this.password = password;
  }

  // This method is called when a password-protected URL is accessed
  protected PasswordAuthentication getPasswordAuthentication() {
      return new PasswordAuthentication(username, password.toCharArray());
  }
}

Are there any better way?