Help on " missing method body, or declare abstract"

[Jack McGonnell]

Yes, I looked it up on a bazillion different websites and I couldn't see anything wrong with my brackets or not including my sub-classes in my big class.
the code:

import java.io.*;
import java.net.*;
public class onehundred
{
    public static void main(String args[])
     {String urlParameters =
        "fName=" + URLEncoder.encode("???", "UTF-8") + "&lName=" + URLEncoder.encode("???", "UTF-8");
        request("http://codeabbey.sourceforge.net", urlParameters);}
public static String request(String gotourl, String urlParameters);
   { HttpURLConnection connection = null;  
  try 
   {
    //Create connection
    URL url = new URL(gotourl);
    connection = (HttpURLConnection)url.openConnection();
    connection.setRequestMethod("POST");
    connection.setRequestProperty("/say-100.php", "token: 1doyivz7f6xqHQVtS5dJ8jU3");

    connection.setUseCaches(false);
    connection.setDoOutput(true);

    //Send request
    DataOutputStream wr = new DataOutputStream (connection.getOutputStream());
    wr.writeBytes(urlParameters);
    wr.close();

    //Get Response  
    InputStream is = connection.getInputStream();
    BufferedReader rd = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is));
    StringBuilder response = new StringBuilder(); // or StringBuffer if not Java 5+ 
    String line;
    while((line = rd.readLine()) != null) 
    { response.append(line);
      response.append('\r');
    }
    rd.close();
    return response.toString();
   } catch (Exception e) 
    {e.printStackTrace();
    return null;
    } finally 
      {
    if(connection != null) 
       {connection.disconnect();}
     }
   }
}

Errors:
onehundred.java:9: error: missing method body, or declare abstractpublic static String request(String gotourl, String urlParameters); ^onehundred.java:14: error: cannot find symbol URL url = new URL(gotourl); ^ symbol: variable gotourl location: class onehundredonehundred.java:24: error: cannot find symbol wr.writeBytes(urlParameters); ^ symbol: variable urlParameters location: class onehundredonehundred.java:37: error: return outside method return response.toString(); ^onehundred.java:40: error: return outside method return null; ^5 errors

[Henry Wong]

Jack McGonnell wrote:Yes, I looked it up on a bazillion different websites and I couldn't see anything wrong with my brackets or not including my sub-classes in my big class.

It is not related to the brackets. You have an extra semi-colon after the method declaration on line 9. This is why the method body is missing. As for the code after the semi-colon, that becomes part of an instance initializer (along with some issues).

Henry