code: protected Document getHttpDocument(String url)
  			throws IOException, SAXException {
  		URL u = new URL(url);
  		URLConnection conn = u.openConnection();
  		conn.setConnectTimeout(connectTimeout);
  		conn.setReadTimeout(readTimeout);
  		return (getDocumentBuilder()).parse(conn.getInputStream(),url);
  	}
docs: do an HTTP request, plus parse the result into an XML DOM