public static String loadPage(String url) throws IOException {

    return loadPage(new URL(url));

  }

  public static String loadPage(URL url) throws IOException {

    System.out.println("Loading: " + url.toExternalForm());

    URLConnection con = url.openConnection();

    return loadPage(con, url);

  }

  public static String loadPage(URLConnection con, URL url) throws IOException {

    String contentType = con.getContentType();

    if (contentType == null)

      throw new IOException("Page could not be read: " + url);

    //Log.info("Content-Type: " + contentType);

    String charset = loadPage_guessCharset(contentType);

    Reader r = new InputStreamReader(con.getInputStream(), charset);

    StringBuilder buf = new StringBuilder();

    while (true) {

      int ch = r.read();

      if (ch < 0)

        break;

      //Log.info("Chars read: " + buf.length());

      buf.append((char) ch);

    }

    return buf.toString();

  }

  static String loadPage_guessCharset(String contentType) {

    Pattern p = Pattern.compile("text/html;\\s+charset=([^\\s]+)\\s*");

    Matcher m = p.matcher(contentType);

    /* If Content-Type doesn't match this pre-conception, choose default and hope for the best. */

    return m.matches() ? m.group(1) : "ISO-8859-1";

  }

}