Trouble with the header content of php script - return wrong character: ?�?

Question

Hello everybody!
I have one problem with reading of content of php's return text value.
Ok in php script was programmed something like this:
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     $new1 = ereg_replace(".*OUTPUT url=\"(.{40,70})\" ?/>.*", "\\1",$XMLResponse);
     $size = strlen($new1);
     header("Content-Type: text/plain");
     header("Content-Length: " .$size);
     echo $new1;
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$new1 includes url address to picture.
Ok, in my java applet I'm using the method readLine() of DataInputStream Class, where I'm reading the return text value of the mentioned php script. The code is here:
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          try {
               dis = new DataInputStream(url.openStream());
               str = dis.readLine();
          } catch (IOException e2) {
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but response is a text plus this kind of characters in beginning : ?�?
What the trouble there? Thank you
Jan Zitniak :)

Answer 1

Hello,
thank you for your idea, but I resolved problem with this code:
          URL urlReal = null;
          try {
               urlReal = new URL (str); // convert String to URL
          } catch (MalformedURLException e) {
               // TODO Auto-generated catch block
               e.printStackTrace();
In that code I "converted" a string to url where the string happened a real URL address.
Jan :)