import java.net.*; import java.io.*; public class EncodingAwareSourceViewer { public static void main (String[] args) { for (int i = 0; i < args.length; i++) { try { // set default encoding String encoding = "ISO-8859-1"; URL u = new URL(args[i]); URLConnection uc = u.openConnection(); String contentType = uc.getContentType(); int encodingStart = contentType.indexOf("charset="); if (encodingStart != -1) { encoding = contentType.substring(encodingStart+8); } InputStream in = new BufferedInputStream(uc.getInputStream()); Reader r = new InputStreamReader(in, encoding); int c; while ((c = r.read()) != -1) { System.out.print((char) c); } } catch (MalformedURLException ex) { System.err.println(args[0] + " is not a parseable URL"); } catch (IOException ex) { System.err.println(ex); } } // end if } // end main } // end EncodingAwareSourceViewer