URLConnection

[warrier]

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:

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();
	}
}

[Tolls]

And?

[warrier]

and it doesnt work and it outputs the websites HTML code

[Tolls]

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?

[warrier]

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