Name: dsC58869 Date: 02/10/2000


The method
java.net.URL.openConnection() hangs up the Java VM
when character encoding is not ASCII (e.g. Cp037).

Here is a minimized test:
public class URLTest05 {
public static void main(String[] args) {
try {
                String str = "http://www.sparc.spb.su/index.html";
                System.out.println(str);
                InputStreamReader isr = new InputStreamReader(System.in);
                System.out.println(isr.getEncoding());
                System.out.flush();
URL url = new URL(str);
                URLConnection conn = url.openConnection();
                conn.getInputStream();
System.out.println("OKAY");
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}

Output:
%echo $LANG
C
%java URLTest05
http://www.sparc.spb.su/index.html
ISO8859_1
OKAY
%java -Dfile.encoding=Cp037 URLTest05
êúúùzaaªªªKóùüÖâKóùéKóñaëòäàºKêúöô§Èù^T^?M-^U§
^C
It means (converted from Cp037 to ASCII):
http://www.sparc.spb.su/index.html
Cp037

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