Trying to read from a URL(in Java) produces gibberish on certain occaisions

Question

I\'m trying to read from a URL, and then print the result.

BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(
     new InputStreamReader(new URL(\"http://somesite.com/\").o         


        

Answer 1

Try using telnet to diagnose what's coming over the wire. It may not be textual data. For example, what happens when yo do this?

telnet somesite.com 80
GET / HTTP/1.0
Host: somesite.com

(two carriage returns required after last line)

This should allow you to see the headers and content coming in and should give you a better clue as to what's going on.