URL exception: no protocol

Question

I wrote a https-URL-Reader using JSDK 1.5 who includes the latest JSSE. First the https-URL-reader fetches a page from a server who uses url-rewriting for session-tracking. So far the first step is working well, I got the page content. Inside this page are hrefs pointing to follow-up-pages. These hrefs includes a url with a JSESSIONID and params who looks like this:
https://host.server.domain/path;JSESSIONID=id1...!id2..?name1=value&name2=value.
The prog gets a follow-up-href from the content extract the url and tried to fetch the related page. At this point everything went down the street ... with an URL-exception: no protocol! I guess its depending an the semi-colon inside the url!
I wondering getting a url with included JSESSIONID should be a daily task!
When I paste this URL into a browser (IE 6) it works!
So where is the mistake???
Any ideas and help are welcome.
Thanks a lot!
Detlev
Here are the related urls and the important code-parts:
          // The following string represents the Start-Page
          String requestedURL = "https://direkt.postbank.de/direktportalApp/index.jsp";
          /*The requestedURL is proceed with https-URL-Reader and creates a file which has the page
          content to the caller. It works fine!*/
          /* This next string shows the URL extract from a href which is given for
          a follow-up-page. This URL contains now the JSESSIONID and some params.*/
          String requestedURL = "https://direkt.postbank.de/direktportalApp/application;JSESSIONID_direktportalApp=CzJMF8h3LZzd7MnfsDDpFLKWp5y81s5FcGG9vkVnF6cyTKGnQvfv!824009080?origin=login.jsp&event=bea.portal.framework.internal.portlet.event&pageid=login&portletid=login&wfevent=button.info.weiter";
          /*With this requestedURL the https-URL-Reader is called again to fetch the follow-up-page.
          Immediately a malformedURLException is thrown and the game is over!*/
Code-Snippet https-URL-Reader (only the important lines):
     String requestURL(String requestedURL){
     try{     ......
          URL search = new URL(requestedURL);                    
          URLConnection httpscon = search.openConnection();
          File outputFile = new File(dir,file);          
          FileWriter out = new FileWriter(outputFile);
          BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(httpscon.getInputStream()));
          while ((inputLine = in.readLine()) != null){
                    buffer.append(inputLine+"\n");
                    out.write(buffer.toString());
                    out.flush();
                    buffer.delete(0, buffer.length()-1);
          in.close();
          return (file);
     catch (Exception e){ 
          System.out.println("Error: "+e);     }
p.s.
I apologize for my bad english

Answer 1

The prob is solved.