public boolean  testSite(String website_url, String enteredCID) {

    URL url = null;

    try {
      url = new URL("http://www.webblock.net/netBlock/sdk?NBCID="+enteredCID+"&NBURL=" + website_url);
    } catch (java.net.MalformedURLException ex) {
      jEditorPane1.setText("URL could not be formed, failure:"+website_url);
      return false;
    }

    HttpURLConnection connection =null;
    try {
      connection = (HttpURLConnection)url.openConnection();
    } catch (java.io.IOException ex) {
      jEditorPane1.setText("Could not make a connection to URL:"+website_url);
      return false;
    }


    connection.setUseCaches(false);
    connection.setRequestProperty( "User-Agent","Mozilla/4.0 (compatible;MSIE 5.0)" );
    connection.setRequestProperty( "accept-language","text/html" );

    int responseCode = -1;
    String responseMessage = null;

    try {
      responseMessage = connection.getResponseMessage();
    } catch (java.io.IOException ex) {
          /*a response of null, site is dead */
          jEditorPane1.setText("Response MESSAGE could not be determined for URL :"+website_url+": "+ex.getMessage());
          try {
            responseCode = connection.getResponseCode();
          } catch (java.io.IOException ex2) {
            jEditorPane1.setText("Response code could not be determined for URL :"+website_url+": "+ex2.getMessage());
          }

         connection.disconnect();
         return false;
  }

  try {
    responseCode = connection.getResponseCode();
  } catch (java.io.IOException ex) {
      jEditorPane1.setText("Response code could not be determined for URL :"+website_url+": "+ex.getMessage());
      connection.disconnect();
      return false;
  }

  jEditorPane1.setText("ResponseCode is "+responseCode);
  switch (responseCode){

    case NB_ACCOUNT_EXPIRED:
      jEditorPane1.setText("Account that references NBCID has expired. Please contact WebBlock");
      break;
    case NB_ACCOUNT_NOTFOUND:
      jEditorPane1.setText("Account that references NBCID was not found. Please contact WebBlock");
      break;
    case NB_ACCOUNT_RATINGS_ERROR:
      jEditorPane1.setText("You have duplicated a rating in the parameters NBPASS OR NBBLOCK. Both parameters must be unique.");
      break;
    case NB_ACCOUNT_CONNECTION_REFUSED:
      jEditorPane1.setText("The database connection could not be opened");
      break;
    case javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse.SC_OK:
      jEditorPane1.setText("NBURL was found in the database, with an assigned rating and was passed or as been previously visited. ");
      break;
    case javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse.SC_UNAUTHORIZED:
      jEditorPane1.setText("The account pointed to by NBCID has been disabled. This is a feature where you can close down all connections.");
      break;
    case javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse.SC_FORBIDDEN:
      jEditorPane1.setText("The site pointed to by NBURL has failed against a rating of NBBLOCK or one set in the database.");
      break;
    case javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse.SC_NOT_FOUND:
      jEditorPane1.setText("The site pointed to by NBURL was not found in the WebBlock database and has no rating attached to it.");
      break;
  }
  connection.disconnect();
  return true;
 } //testSite