I'm have a banner on a php page(https://picard.hgo.se/~siamese/bannergame/bannergame.php), I try to send the the variable score to the page from the applet, so that the page can echo it. But the page dosen't receive the variable, what am I doing wrong? This is how I send: import java.net.URL; import java.net.URLConnection; public class NewApplet extends java.applet.Applet { public void init() { try { URL url = new URL("https://picard.hgo.se/~siamese/bannergame/bannergame.php?score=56"); URLConnection connection = url.openConnection(); connection.setDoOutput(true); } catch (Exception e) { System.out.println("something went wrong"); } } // TODO overwrite start(), stop() and destroy() methods } This is how i receive: