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I have a legacy applet which will respond to a certain HTTP query with a
binary string of several hundred bytes.

I can't seem to find a way to capture the incoming stream without getting
messed up by the world of Unicode.  For instance, I know I'm expecting a
byte \x89, but it appears as a \u2030.  That's no fun!

I send the message just fine with:

        URL url = new URL(URLName);
         URLConnection uc = url.openConnection();
         uc.setDoOutput(true);
         uc.setDoInput(true);
          uc.setUseCaches (false);

         DataOutputStream dos = new DataOutputStream(uc.getOutputStream());
         // Send the data
         dos.writeBytes(raterequest);
         dos.flush();
         dos.close();  // this all works!!

I've tried a dozen permutations of InputStreamReader and BuffererReader to
capture my result, but I can't seem to get those \x8_  bytes which are
represented in Unicode.  Can I perform a simple conversion of some type on
these unicode characters or int's?

TIA

Harry