Read URL using URLReader

Question

I am trying to read a specific URL using URLReader, as described in
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/networking/urls/readingURL.html
The code is the following:
import java.net.*;
import java.io.*;
public class URLReader {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
     URL yahoo = new URL("http://www.yahoo.com/");
     BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(
                    new InputStreamReader(
                    yahoo.openStream()));
     String inputLine;
     while ((inputLine = in.readLine()) != null)
     System.out.println(inputLine);
     in.close();
The code is working fine with 90% of the URL's I am using.
Still it doesn't work for the URL I need it for.
Specifically, I need to open URLs from www.imdb.com like the following:
http://us.imdb.com/M/title-exact?Kika%20(1993)
which means that I should replace the corresponding line from the code above with:
URL yahoo = new URL("http://us.imdb.com/M/title-exact?Kika%20(1993)")
When I run the program though, after I make that change, it just hangs without doing anything.
Some people in the past, advised me to set the proxy correctly.
prop.put("http.proxyHost","myproxy.someplace.com");
prop.put("http.proxyPort","80");
Nevertheless, the system administrator here assured me that we are not using a proxy.
So, is there another way to read the specific URL I need to, using the URLReader code?
If so, how can it be done?
Again, the URL I am trying to handle is:
http://us.imdb.com/M/title-exact?Kika%20(1993)
Thanks,
manolis

Answer 1

Still, I am pretty sure that the problem is not with the way I am writting the URL itself
I even tried hardcoding the URL as suggested, and as it could have been encoded by using URLEncode, ie
http://us.imdb.com/M/title-exact?Kika%20%281993%29
and still it didnt work. The program would just hang there and not do anything.
It wont even read a much simple, but similar URL, like
http://www.imdb.com/
So, any more suggestions would be more than welcome.
Thanks,
Manolis