diff --git a/themoviedbapi/src/com/moviejukebox/themoviedb/tools/DOMHelper.java b/themoviedbapi/src/com/moviejukebox/themoviedb/tools/DOMHelper.java
index 521943db6..c87de81c4 100644
--- a/themoviedbapi/src/com/moviejukebox/themoviedb/tools/DOMHelper.java
+++ b/themoviedbapi/src/com/moviejukebox/themoviedb/tools/DOMHelper.java
@@ -10,14 +10,11 @@
  *      For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the 
  *      license terms of this work.  
  */
-
 package com.moviejukebox.themoviedb.tools;
 
 import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
-import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
-import java.net.MalformedURLException;
 
 import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
 import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
@@ -35,6 +32,7 @@ import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
  *
  */
 public class DOMHelper {
+
     /**
      * Gets the string value of the tag element name passed
      * @param element
@@ -43,7 +41,7 @@ public class DOMHelper {
      */
     public static String getValueFromElement(Element element, String tagName) {
         String returnValue = "";
-        
+
         try {
             NodeList elementNodeList = element.getElementsByTagName(tagName);
             Element tagElement = (Element) elementNodeList.item(0);
@@ -52,7 +50,7 @@ public class DOMHelper {
         } catch (Exception ignore) {
             return returnValue;
         }
-        
+
         return returnValue;
     }
 
@@ -60,22 +58,27 @@ public class DOMHelper {
      * Get a DOM document from the supplied URL
      * @param url
      * @return
-     * @throws MalformedURLException
      * @throws IOException
      * @throws ParserConfigurationException
      * @throws SAXException
      */
-    public static Document getEventDocFromUrl(String url) 
-        throws MalformedURLException, IOException, ParserConfigurationException, SAXException, UnsupportedEncodingException {
-        //InputStream in = (new URL(url)).openStream();
-        String webPage = WebBrowser.request(url);
-        InputStream in = new ByteArrayInputStream(webPage.getBytes("UTF-8"));
-        
-        DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
-        DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();
-        Document doc = db.parse(in);
-        
-        doc.getDocumentElement().normalize();
+    public static Document getEventDocFromUrl(String url)
+            throws IOException, ParserConfigurationException, SAXException {
+        Document doc = null;
+        InputStream in = null;
+        try {
+            String webPage = WebBrowser.request(url);
+            in = new ByteArrayInputStream(webPage.getBytes("UTF-8"));
+
+            DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
+            DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();
+            doc = db.parse(in);
+            doc.getDocumentElement().normalize();
+        } finally {
+            if (in != null) {
+                in.close();
+            }
+        }
         return doc;
     }
 }