public String getPage(URL url) throws IOException{
  StringBuffer page = new StringBuffer();
  String s = null;

  URLConnection urlCon = url.openConnection();
  urlCon.setConnectTimeout(10000);
  BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(urlCon.getInputStream()));

  while ((s = in.readLine()) != null) {
    page.append(s);
  }
  in.close();

  return page.toString();
}