Connection to a servlet inside a mailet

[PINAULT Karine FTRD/DMI/REN]

I am trying to establish a connection to a servlet running on tomcat from inside my 
custom mailet. I am using httpClient package to create a filePost object to send to 
the servlet. It seems that nothing is happening when I create the object.
Could someone tell me if it is possible to establish an http connection from inside a 
mailet?

Thanks a lot (I need to find out how to do it quite urgently!)

Karine Pinault