Getting character set from a website

[Java Tip]

Following code gets the character set from a website.

Code:

	String encoding="";
        URL u = new URL("http://www.msn.com");
        URLConnection uc = u.openConnection( );
        String contentType = uc.getContentType( );
        int encodingStart = contentType.indexOf("charset=");
        if (encodingStart != -1) {
            encoding = contentType.substring(encodingStart+8);
        }

         System.out.println(encoding);

Output:

Code:

utf-8