HttpURLConnection on OS/390

Question

If someone can give me the correct solution, I would be indebted.
I am running java 1.3 on OS/390 mainframe. I am trying to do a HttpURLConnection to another website. The problem is on the mainframe, the basis for OS/390 is ebcdic.
I can not get the connection to work, I get a 400 response. The same code runs fine on my pc, which runs the same jdk, but is ascii.
I have tried everything I can think of to change the encoding of the the HTTP request on the mainframe to ascii so the website can read it.
Can anyone help?

Answer 1

something like this should convert from ascii to ebcdic.
String sURL =
"http://www.yahoo.com";
     try {
     URL yahooURL = new URL(sURL);
     URLConnection urlconn = yahooURL.openConnection();
     urlconn.connect();
     InputStream is = urlconn.getInputStream();
     BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is,"cp437"));
     if(in != null)
     {  String line = "";
          while((line=in.readLine()) != null)
          {    System.out.println(line);