>>> Mike Whittaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 10-May-01 3:52:37 PM >>>
>Question
>How do you (presumably with URLConnection class) fill in
>the parameter names & values with Java?
>I imagined it would be something like the setRequestProperty
>method. Do you somehow send it in the body with the
>OutputStream? If so how?
setRequestProperty() allows you to specify an HTTP request *header*.
The values sent as POSTs are sent in the body of the POST. In order
to POST the parameter "name" with the value "value" to a server we do
the following:
- get an HttpURLConnection:
HttpURLConnection urlcon=new
URL("http://host/res/";).openConnection();
- set the URLConnection to allow output:
urlcon.setDoOutput(true);
- set the content type and method correctly:
utlcon.setRequestMethod("POST");
urlcon.setRequestProperty("Content-Type","application/x-www-form-url-encoded");
- add the post body to the request:
OutputStream out=urlcon.getOutputStream();
out.println(URLEncoder.encode("name")
+"="
+URLEncoder.encode("value"));
out.flush();
out.close();
It's unforunate that POSTs are not better supported by the API, they
easily could be, but as you're probably beginning to understand: there
are a lot of holes in java.net.URL classes.
Nic Ferrier
PS PLEASE change your reply-to - it's really annoying
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