private static String readUrl(String urlString) throws Exception {
        BufferedReader reader = null;
        StringBuffer buffer = null;
        URLConnection uc = null;
        String cl;
        
        try {
            URL url = new URL(urlString);
            uc = url.openConnection();
            uc.addRequestProperty("User-Agent", "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)");
            uc.connect();
            reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(uc.getInputStream()));
            buffer = new StringBuffer();

            while ((cl = reader.readLine()) != null)
                buffer.append(cl);
            
            return buffer.toString();
        } finally {
           reader.close();
        }
    }