URLConnection

Hey I'm relatively new to networking in Java but i have created some client/server programs. However, in this program im trying to post to a URL. i want the user to enter a word, and that word to be searched up in dictionary.reference.com and the results to be sent back. here is my code:

Code:

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package networking;

import java.net.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.util.Scanner;

public class Website {
        static Scanner iScan = new Scanner(System.in);
        public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception
        {
                URL dict = new URL("http://www.dictionary.reference.com/");
                URLConnection yc = dict.openConnection();
                yc.setDoOutput(true);
               
                System.out.println("Word: ");
                String word = iScan.nextLine();
                word = URLEncoder.encode(word, "UTF-8");
               
               
                OutputStreamWriter out = new OutputStreamWriter(yc.getOutputStream());
                out.write("q=" + word);
                out.close();
               
                BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(yc.getInputStream()));
                String inputLine;
                while ((inputLine = in.readLine()) != null)
                        System.out.println(inputLine);
                in.close();
        }
}

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And?

and it doesnt work and it outputs the websites HTML code

Then I'd look at what the website is expecting.
Sounds like it's not expecting a simple post of a word.

Is there some documentation?

i looked at the source code to find out the id of the search which was "q"
and theres no documentation but i contacted the websites owners