SOURCE CODE for lycos program which uses Lycos to search
import java.net.*;
import java.io.*;
public class lycos {
// conducts a search of the Lycos site using a CGI instruction like:
// http://www.lycos.com/cgi-bin/pusuit?query=java
public static void main(String[] args) {
String querystring = "";
for (int i = 0; i < args.length; i++)
{
querystring += args[i] + " ";
}
querystring.trim();
querystring = "query=" + URLEncoder.encode(querystring);
try {
String thisLine;
URL url = new URL("http://www.lycos.com/cgi-bin/pursuit?" + querystring);
DataInputStream theHTML = new DataInputStream(url.openStream());
while ((thisLine = theHTML.readLine()) != null)
{
System.out.println (thisLine);
}
}
catch (MalformedURLException e)
{ System.err.println(e); }
catch (IOException e)
{ System.err.println(e); }
}
}