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import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.net.URL;
import java.net.URLConnection;
import java.net.URLEncoder;

public class Reverse {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {

        if (args.length != 1) {
            System.err.println("Usage:  java Reverse " + "string_to_reverse");
            System.exit(1);
        }

        String stringToReverse = URLEncoder.encode(args[0]);

        URL url = new URL("http://java.sun.com/cgi-bin/backwards");
        URLConnection connection = url.openConnection();
        connection.setDoOutput(true);

        PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(connection.getOutputStream());
        out.println("string=" + stringToReverse);
        out.close();

        BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(connection.getInputStream()));
        String inputLine;

        while ((inputLine = in.readLine()) != null)
            System.out.println(inputLine);

        in.close();
    }
}