Public Shared Function GetHttpPage(ByVal pageUrl As String) As String
        Dim response As System.Net.WebResponse = Nothing

        Try
            '' Setup our Web request
            Dim request As System.Net.WebRequest = System.Net.WebRequest.Create(pageUrl)
            request.Timeout = 10000

            '' Retrieve data from request
            response = request.GetResponse()

            Dim streamReceive As System.IO.Stream = response.GetResponseStream()
            Dim encoding As System.Text.Encoding = System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding("utf-8")
            Dim streamRead As System.IO.StreamReader = New System.IO.StreamReader(streamReceive, encoding)

            '' return the retrieved HTML
            Return streamRead.ReadToEnd()
        Finally
            ''Check if exists, then close the response.
            If Not response Is Nothing Then
                response.Close()
            End If
        End Try
    End Function