Hello Jerry, > I checked this and both urlA and urlB are correct. I got them by visiting > the website with my browser, then copying and pasting each of them into my > standalone Java application.
You can *not* get the target URL of a form POST by copying and pasting the URL from a browser. You get the URL of the form POST by looking at the HTML source code of the page that provides the form. There, you search for a tag <form method="POST" target="*this*is*the*URL*to*POST*to"> In most cases, the server will send a redirect in response to the POST. The browser will only show the address of the page to which you are redirected, not the address to which you have to send the POST. > In addition, I suspect that if urlB were wrong, my GetMethod would not have > worked because it uses the same values for urlA and urlB, yet it works > perfectly. GET and POST are two completely different things. GET is a read operation, while POST more often than not implies some kind of write. Imagine a file system: reading the directory is one thing, but you don't create files by writing to the directory. You create files by calling a create operation with the name of the new file. Then, the directory content changes. cheers, Roland --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
