Hi All

Perhaps someone knows the answer to this problem. I open a connection
to a URL and read lines one at a time from the URL using a
InputStreamReader and a BufferedReader:

              // Open connection to URL
               URLConnection conn =
(URLConnection)pageURL.openConnection();
               conn.setReadTimeout(timeout);
               conn.setConnectTimeout(timeout);
               conn.setUseCaches(false);
               InputStream pageStream = conn.getInputStream();
               BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new
InputStreamReader(pageStream));

               String line;
               StringBuffer pageBuffer = new StringBuffer();
               while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null)
               {
                   System.out.println(line);
                   pageBuffer.append(line);
               }
               return pageBuffer.toString();

However, the actual text I get back from the URL is different from that
saved out of a browser from the same URL. Particularly, the browser
saves £ characters, whereas the lines read in Java are missing
these characters altogether. Also, some of the characters have actually
been deleted in the Java lines. I have tried using different character
encodings in the second argument of the InputStreamReader, this has
virtually no effect, except using UTF-16 which returns a large number
of "?" characters in the stream. The content type header of the page
says it is ISO-8859-1, but this character encoding string with the
InputStreamReader changes nothing in the Java code: the £ symbol is
still missing.

In the browser, if I change the character encoding to "UTF-8" then the
£ symbol is still properly displayed in the browser. In other words,
it looks like I am receiving different data from the server depending
upon whether I use the browser or the code. I'm not sure if it has
anything to do with the encoding, but I'm just guessing.

Thanks,
Nubs.