cant connect to servlet

[yemista]

I wrote some code to connect to my servlet.

String charset = "UTF-8";
                    System.out.println("msg "+message);
                    String urlParameters = "jsessionid=" + URLEncoder.encode(sessionid, "UTF-8") + "&text=" + URLEncoder.encode(message, "UTF-8");
                    site = new URL("http://localhost:8085/TutorHorizons/InputServlet?"+urlParameters);
                    System.out.println(site);
                    connection = (HttpURLConnection)site.openConnection();
                    //connection.setRequestProperty("Accept-Charset", charset);
                    connection.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
                    connection.setRequestMethod("GET");
                    connection.setDoOutput(true);
                    //connection.setReadTimeout(10000);
                    //connection.setDoOutput(true);
                    //connection.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
                    connection.connect();

i left the commented stuff in so you could see other things i tried. this code wont work, however, when i paste the url that prints out into a browser, it connects just fine. any suggestions?

[wsaryada]

Did you get any error message when running the program?

[yemista]

Nope, no exceptions thrown at all. Also, when I use the same code to connect to google.com and read from it, I get data.

[yemista]

ok its working now. one thing that was wrong was in the servlet itself, i was calling flush on the output stream and it didnt like that. also, it seemed to be a combination of netbeans acting funny and running wireshark on my machine. i have no clue how these factors screwed things up, but after a restart everything worked just fine. i debugged it by printing out the httpresponsecode