When considering the java class URLTestClass (below), if I use the
"urlGood" string as the URL param, I get a good html response which I
can read.  If I send the "urlBad" string, I get the exception.
However, if I take the string indicated as urlBad, and I cut/paste it
into Firefox or IE's address line, and press return.. walla, a good
response.  Is there something really stupid I'm doing?  I can only
imagine that I have some special characters that I'm not escaping or
something... I'm so frustrated and would welcome some belittling and
smug comments on my weak programmig skills... just so I could get an
answer. ...

java.io.FileNotFoundException:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=helpme&btnG=Google+Search
    at
sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:595)
    at test.URLTestClass.main(URLTestClass.java:34)

package test;

import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.net.URL;

public class URLTestClass {

    /**
    * Constructor for URLTestClass.
    */
    public URLTestClass() {

    }

    public static void main(String args[]) {
        String urlGood = "http://www.google.com";
        String urlBad =
"http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=helpme&btnG=Google+Search";

        try {
            URL url = new URL(urlBad);
            InputStream is = url.openConnection().getInputStream();
            java.io.BufferedReader br = new java.io.BufferedReader(new
InputStreamReader(is));
            for (String l = null;(l = br.readLine()) != null;)
                System.out.println(l);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

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