String theCGI = "http://www.server.com/cgi-bin/aCGI.pl";
String encoded = "name=" + URLEncoder.encode("Real Gagnon");
URL CGIurl = new URL(theCGI);URLConnection c = CGIurl.openConnection();
c.setDoOutput(true);
c.setUseCaches(false);
c.setRequestProperty("content-type","application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
DataOutputStream out = new DataOutputStream(c.getOutputStream());
out.writeBytes(encoded);
out.flush(); out.close();BufferedReader in =
   new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(c.getInputStream()));String aLine;
while ((aLine = in.readLine()) != null) {
   // data from the CGI
   System.out.println(aLine);
   }