Simple GET with countdown

getResponse.java

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.net.URL;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.nio.charset.Charset;

private String getResponse(URL url){
    try {
        HttpURLConnection c = url.openConnection();
        c.setReadTimeout(1000); // 1 second
        br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(c.getInputStream()));
        
        String line;
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
        while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
            sb.append(line);
        }

        JSONObject json = new JSONObject(sb.toString());     
    } catch (Exception e) {
        // do what we do today
        // return false; ?
    } 
   
    if (c.getResponseCode() == 200) {
        return json.getString("authorized");
    } else {
        // return false; ?
    } 
}