// setup url
      String translationUrl = "http://www.sprawk.com/api/translate.jsp";
      String queryString = "groupCode=" + groupCode +
              "&password=" + password +
              "&text=" + URLEncoder.encode(text) +
              "&fromLang=" + codeFrom +
              "&toLang=" + codeTo +
              "&type=text";
      // do the web request
      HttpMethod method = new GetMethod(translationUrl);
      method.setQueryString(queryString);
      method.setFollowRedirects(true);
      method.setStrictMode(false);
      try {
        CLIENT.executeMethod(method);
        // trim to remove any leading/trailing newlines
        translation = method.getResponseBodyAsString().trim();
      } catch (IOException e) {
        LogHelper.log.error("Method error", e);
        translation = text;
      }