updater should work now

src/net/brysonsteck/Resurrection/Resurrection.java

@@ -47,7 +47,6 @@ public class Resurrection extends JavaPlugin {
 
     // end of spigot things
     public static void main(String[] args) {
-
 //        PlayerData playerData = new PlayerData();
 //        playerData.saveData("This is the first line\nthis is the second line");
 //        System.out.println(playerData.getPlayers());

src/net/brysonsteck/Resurrection/startup/CheckForUpdate.java

@@ -3,11 +3,9 @@ package net.brysonsteck.Resurrection.startup;
 import com.google.gson.JsonElement;
 import com.google.gson.JsonObject;
 import com.google.gson.JsonParser;
+import com.google.gson.stream.JsonReader;
 
-import java.io.FileReader;
-import java.io.IOException;
-import java.io.InputStream;
-import java.io.InputStreamReader;
+import java.io.*;
 import java.net.MalformedURLException;
 import java.net.URL;
 import java.net.URLConnection;
@@ -19,11 +17,8 @@ public class CheckForUpdate {
 
     public CheckForUpdate() {
         try {
-            URL url = new URL("http://resurrect.brysonsteck.net");
-            URLConnection request = url.openConnection();
-            request.connect();
-            JsonParser json = new JsonParser();
-            JsonElement root = json.parse(new InputStreamReader((InputStream) request.getContent()));
+            String json = urlReader();
+            JsonElement root = new JsonParser().parse(json);
             JsonObject rootobj = root.getAsJsonObject();
             version = rootobj.get("current-version").getAsString();
             versionURL = rootobj.get("release-url").getAsString();
@@ -33,6 +28,24 @@ public class CheckForUpdate {
         }
     }
 
+    public String urlReader() throws IOException {
+        URL website = new URL("https://brysonsteck.net/resurrect.json");
+        URLConnection connection = website.openConnection();
+        BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(
+                new InputStreamReader(
+                        connection.getInputStream()));
+
+        StringBuilder response = new StringBuilder();
+        String inputLine;
+
+        while ((inputLine = in.readLine()) != null)
+            response.append(inputLine);
+
+        in.close();
+
+        return response.toString();
+    }
+
     public String getVersionURL() {
         return versionURL;
     }