http://www.daniweb.com – hello!When in the below code if iam using a local address instead of yahoo.com,it is executing well,but if iam not using a local address then it is giving a java.net.SocketException.I use a proxy connection and i have set my proxy for java .pl help import java.net.*; import java.io.*; import java.io.*; public class URLReader { public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { URL yahoo = new URL("http://www.yahoo.com/"); BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader( new InputStreamReader( yahoo.openStream())); String inputLine; while ((inputLine = in.readLine()) != null) System.out.println(inputLine); in.close(); } } (General)