When I try the code below with "http://www.google.com/search?
source=ig&hl=en&rlz=&q=something" in the URLs.txt file, I get an
IOException error.  The server is returning an HTTP response code
403.  However, when I open the same URL in my browser, it works
fine.

   A different but similarly formated URL to another server worked
fine.  Maybe this server is expection something additional?

     I am new at this, and I wonder if it is obvious what the
problems is.

Thanks, Alan

// download text content of URL

import java.net.*;
import java.io.*;

public class URLget
{
  public static void main ( String[] args ) throws IOException
  {
     try
     {
      BufferedReader infile = new BufferedReader(new
FileReader("URLs.txt"));

        PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(new
FileOutputStream("downloaded.html"));
        String aURL, str;

        while ((aURL = infile.readLine()) != null)
        {
           URL url = new URL(aURL);
           System.out.println(aURL);

           BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new
InputStreamReader(url.openStream()));

           while ((str = in.readLine()) != null)
           {
              out.println(str);
           }

           in.close();
        }
        infile.close();

        out.close();
     }
     catch (MalformedURLException e) {e.printStackTrace();}
     catch (IOException e) {e.printStackTrace();}
  }
}