protected Image getImage(String imageId) throws Exception {
        URL imageURL = new URL(getCodeBase(), "/GEFT/ImageRetriever");
        URLConnection connection = imageURL.openConnection();
 
        // Make sure browser doesn't cache this URL.
        connection.setUseCaches(false);
        // Tell browser to allow me to send data to server.
        connection.setDoOutput(true);
        
        // Grows if necessary
        ByteArrayOutputStream byteStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream(512);
        // Stream that writes into buffer
        PrintWriter outstr = new PrintWriter(byteStream, true);
        String postData = URLEncoder.encode("imageId=") + URLEncoder.encode(imageId);
        
        // Write POST data into local buffer
        outstr.print(postData);
        // Flush since above used print, not println
        outstr.flush();
        // POST requests are required to have Content-Length
        String lengthString = String.valueOf(byteStream.size());
        connection.setRequestProperty("Content-Length", lengthString);
        
        // Netscape sets the Content-Type to multipart/form-data by default.
        connection.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
        
        // Write POST data to real output stream
        byteStream.writeTo(connection.getOutputStream());
        
        connection.connect();
        
        [b]InputStream input = connection.getInputStream();[/b]
        ByteArrayOutputStream output = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
        // set read buffer size
        byte[] rb = new byte[1024];
        int ch = 0;
        // process the data
        while ((ch=input.read(rb)) != -1) {
            output.write(rb, 0, ch);
        }
        // transfer to byte buffer
        byte[] b = output.toByteArray();
        input.close();
        output.close();
        // load final buffer to image Icon
        ImageIcon imgIcon = new ImageIcon(b);
        return imgIcon.getImage();
    }

InputStream input = connection.getInputStream();