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

You're probably running into a character encoding issue.

There should be an HTTP header like the following in the response:

Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8