Urgent help - HttpURLConnection from unix

Question

Hi all,
I am having trouble figure out what going on. I wrote this application which will poll a website using http. My code is working prefectly fine in windows, but not from unix. Please help.
The code is show below.
where user is in form of
mydomain//user (this user name work in windows
1. do I need to change the // of of the user name in unix environment?
2. any suggestion please
       // Setting proxy details
        System.setProperty("http.proxySet", "true");
        System.setProperty("http.proxyPort", proxyPort);
        try {
            URL targetUrl = new URL(url);
            conn = (HttpURLConnection) targetUrl.openConnection();
            conn.setRequestProperty("Proxy-Authorization",  "Basic " + new Base64().encodeBase64((proxyUser + ":" + proxyPasswd).getBytes()));
            br = new BufferedReader(isr = new InputStreamReader(conn.getInputStream()));
        catch (IOException e) {
         }Thanks

Answer 1

Thanks for the valuable information.
So is there a work around? instead of doing getByte?
I am currently using the jakata common-codec.
Your help are much appreciated.