I'm trying to read the HTML from a particular URL and store it into a String for parsing. I referred to a [previous post](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6259339/how-to-read-a-text-file-directly-from-internet-using-java) to help me out. When I print out what was read, all I get are special characters. 

Here is my Java code (with try/catches left out) that reads from a [URL](https://html1-f.scribdassets.com/913q5pjrsw60h9i4/pages/106-6b1bd15200.jsonp) and prints:

```
String path = "https://html1-f.scribdassets.com/913q5pjrsw60h9i4/pages/106-6b1bd15200.jsonp";
URL url = new URL(path);
InputStream in = url.openStream();

BufferedReader bw = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(in, "UTF-8");

String line;            
while ((line = bw.readLine()) != null) {
    System.out.println(line);
}

```

Program output:

```
�ĘY106-6b1bd15200.jsonpmP�r� �Ƨ�!�%m�vD"��Ra*��w�%����ݳ�sβ��MK�d�9+%�m��l^��މ����:����  ���8B�Vce�.A*��x$FCo���a�b�<����Xy��m�c�>t����� �Z������Gx�o�   �J���oKe�0�5�kGYpb�*l����+|�U���-�N3��jBp�R�z5Cۥjh��o�;�~)����~��)~ɮhy��<c,=;tHW���'�c�=~�w���

```

Expected output:

```
window.page106_callback(["<div class=\"newpage\" id=\"page106\" style=\"width: 902px; height:1273px\">\n<div class=image_layer style=\"z-index: 1\">\n<div class=ie_fix>\n<img class=\"absimg\" style=\"left:18px;top:27px;width:860px;height:1077px;clip:rect(1px 859px 1076px 1px)\" orig=\"http://html.scribd.com/913q5pjrsw60h9i4/images/106-6b1bd15200.jpg\"/>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>\n\n"]);

```

At first, I thought it was an issue with permissions or something that somehow encrypted the stream, but my friend wrote a small Python script to do the same thing and it worked, thereby ruling this out. This is what he wrote:

```
import requests

link = 'https://html1-f.scribdassets.com/913q5pjrsw60h9i4/pages/106- 
6b1bd15200.jsonp'
f = requests.get(link)
text = (f.text)
print(text)

```

**So the question is, why is the Java version unable to correctly read and print from this particular URL?** Note that I tried testing some other URLs from various websites and those worked fine. Maybe I should learn Python.