Java Programming

Dear All,

I am making an HTTP request in a normal Java application. The contents of the html page that i am requesting is encoded using ISO-8859-1.

I want to be able to convert that data to UTF-8 since I want to store the content in an MySQL database. Which is the best way in which I can do the conversion.

Following is my HTTP request code:

public static String MakeHTTPRequestISO(String requestURL)
{
try {
//Create a URL object from the passed URL parameter.
URL url = new URL(requestURL);

//Create a URL connection
URLConnection urlConn = url.openConnection();

//Get an input stream reader for reading.
InputStream input = urlConn.getInputStream();

//Create a buffered reader for efficiency
//purposes.
BufferedInputStream bi = new BufferedInputStream(input);

//Create a byte array that will store the response. The length of this array is
//set to the size of the response.
byte [] result = new byte[urlConn.getContentLength()];

//This is an integer that stores that offset of this area. The offset increases
//with every read.
int offset = 0;

//The read method of the buffered input stream returns the number of bytes read.
int bytesRead = 0;

//Read until the byte array has been filled.
while ((urlConn.getContentLength()-offset>0)&&((bytesRead = bi.read(result, offset, urlConn.getContentLength()-offset))!=-1))
{
//increment the offset with the number of bytes read
offset += bytesRead;
}

//Get the resultant string from the byte array. Use the UTF-8 encoding because
//of the Language symbols.
String resultString = new String(result,"ISO-8859-1");

//Return the result
return resultString;
}
catch (Exception ex) {
//return null if an exception is caught.
return null;
}
}

What I would like is a method by which I can convert the string from the method above to a UTF-8 string in order to be able to store it in a database.

Many Thanks for your help,
Chris Farrugia