Yes.. that did seem strange and is, of course, wrong. Apologies for my idiocy. However, I can't get it to work with the methods you directed me to either. Always get the 400 response.
any other ideas? -Ben String uri = "http://www.cnn.com";; String tags = "test123"; String encodedData = URLEncoder.encode("uri="+uri +"&tags="+tags,"UTF-8"); URL connoU = new URL("http://www.connotea.org/data/add";); HttpURLConnection conno = (HttpURLConnection) connoU.openConnection (); conno.setRequestProperty("User-Agent", "WWW::Connotea"); conno.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form- urlencoded"); conno.setRequestMethod("POST"); conno.setRequestProperty( "Content-Length", ""+encodedData.length () ); conno.setDoOutput(true); conno.setDoInput(true); conno.setUseCaches(false); OutputStream os = conno.getOutputStream(); os.write( encodedData.getBytes() ); os.flush(); os.close(); int code = conno.getResponseCode(); System.out.println("response code from connotea="+code); On Aug 2, 2007, at 5:45 PM, Martin Flack wrote: > I don't know Java libraries, but it seems unlikely that you should > be using setRequestProperty() for both User-Agent (an HTTP header) > and uri (a form parameter). > > POST's are supposed to put their parameters in the payload (like > your web browser does) by spec. > > Take a look at how they encode and attach the form payload on these > examples: > http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/javatips/jw-javatip34.html > http://developers.sun.com/mobility/midp/ttips/HTTPPost/ > > Cheers, > Martin > > Benjamin Good wrote: >> Usually adding the parameters into the URL works .. why would it >> not in this case? >> I get the same error (400) if I set the params in the code >> URL connoU = new URL("http://www.connotea.org/data/add";); >> HttpURLConnection conno = (HttpURLConnection) connoU.openConnection >> (); >> conno.setRequestProperty("User-Agent", "WWW::Connotea"); >> conno.setRequestProperty("uri", URLEncoder.encode(uri,"UTF-8")); >> conno.setRequestProperty("tag", URLEncoder.encode(tag,"UTF-8")); >> conno.setRequestMethod("POST"); >> I've been digging for some else that has this running in Java, but >> the only one I could find (from Pierre Lindenbaum) didn't use the >> web api - it emulated a user session by storing and sending >> cookies for authentication and sending requests including button >> clicks. (His ConnoteaClient program - but it doesn't seem to be >> work ing anymore). >> -Ben > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Connotea-code-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/connotea-code-devel
