What is the different between Text format display on web browser and display on midle

[Basit781]

Hi,
Hope you all are fine. Can anyone tell me what is the difference between text format or decoding encodine technique display on windows web browser and inside midlet. Means when i run this link on desktop browser

http://10.120.10.31/cgi-bin/api/GT/G...e%20is%20basit

I get translation of "My name is basit" which is in UTF-8, In Uni code it's give me lot of numbers but when i run this link into my midilet i get garbage. why ?

Here is the code that get value from CGi

import java.io.*;
import javax.microedition.io.*;
import javax.microedition.lcdui.*;
import javax.microedition.midlet.*;

/**
 * An example MIDlet to invoke a CGI script (POST method is used).
 */

public class InvokeCgiMidlet2 extends MIDlet {

   private Display display;

   //String url = "http://www.javacourses.com/cgi-bin/pgrade.cgi";
     //String url = "http://10.120.10.24/cgi-bin/http.cgi?cmd=baasit";
     
     String url = "http://10.120.10.31/cgi-bin/api/GT/GT_Send_Msg.cgi?message=My%20name%20is%20basit";

   public InvokeCgiMidlet2() {
      display = Display.getDisplay(this);
   }

   /**
    * Initialization. Invoked when we activate the MIDlet.
    */
   public void startApp() {
      try {
         getGrade(url);
      } catch (IOException e) {
         System.out.println("IOException " + e);
         e.printStackTrace();
      }
   }

   /**
    * Pause, discontinue ....
    */
   public void pauseApp() {
   }

   /**
    * Destroy must cleanup everything.
    */
   public void destroyApp(boolean unconditional) {
   }

   /**
    * Retrieve a grade....
    */

   void getGrade(String url) throws IOException {
      HttpConnection c = null;
      InputStream is = null;
      OutputStream os = null;
      StringBuffer b = new StringBuffer();
      TextBox t = null;
      try {
         c = (HttpConnection)Connector.open(url);
         c.setRequestMethod(HttpConnection.GET);
         c.setRequestProperty("CONTENT-TYPE","application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
         //c.setRequestProperty("CONTENT-TYPE","application/octet-stream");
         c.setRequestProperty("User-Agent","Profile/MIDP-2.1 Confirguration/CLDC-1.1");
        c.setRequestProperty("Content-Language", "en-UR");
         os = c.openOutputStream();

         // send input
        String str = "name=182016";
         byte postmsg[] = str.getBytes();
         for(int i=0;i<postmsg.length;i++) {
             System.out.println("the value of Str is: " + postmsg[i] );
            os.write(postmsg[i]);
         }
         os.flush();
         is = c.openDataInputStream();
         int ch;
         // receive output
         while ((ch = is.read()) != -1) {
            b.append((char) ch);
            System.out.println((char)ch);
         }
         t = new TextBox("Final Grades", b.toString(), 1024, 0);
      } finally {
         if(is!= null) {
            is.close();
         }
         if(os != null) {
            os.close();
         }
         if(c != null) {
            c.close();
         }
      }
      display.setCurrent(t);
   }
}

Thanks

[Basit781]

Hi,
This problem is solved why garbage is coming from server because the data on server is in encoded in UTF-8, so when i used this function, it worked.

 os = c.openOutputStream();
         /*
          String str = "?idnum=182016";
          byte postmsg[] = str.getBytes();
          for(int i=0;i<postmsg.length;i++) {
            os.writeByte(postmsg[i]);
          }
          os.flush();
          */

         Reader r = new InputStreamReader(c.openInputStream(), "UTF-8");


        // is = c.openDataInputStream();

         int ch;
         while ((ch = r.read()) != -1) {
            b.append((char) ch );
            System.out.println((char)ch);
         }
         txtArea2.setFocus(true);
         //txtArea2.setRTL(true);
         txtArea2.setText(b.reverse().toString().trim());
      } finally {
         if(is!= null) {
            is.close();
         }

But i want to ask some thing. I am reading character, is it possible that i read whole string form the server not just character. I tried Bufferedreader but i think buffered reader is not supporter in java Me.Because what is happening right now it is showing character only. Actually the text that i am reading is in Urdu. So is there any way that i read the whole string not just charactrs.

Thank you.