How Add Form Parameters to a Get Request

[Murphy Steve]

Please excuse this horrible posting. I'm completely new to commons
HttpClient and I'm struggling.

I'm using commons HttpClient to post a get request to a page that has a
form. I'm following instructions on the programming primer at
http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client/primer.html

The page has the followng definition for its form:

<form action="http://www.domaintools.com/go/"; method="get">
<input type="hidden" name="service" value="whois" />
<input name="q" type="text"  value="" maxlength="60" size="40"
style="font-size: 256%"/>
<input type="submit"  value="Lookup" size="40" style="font-size: 206%"
/>

So I'm creating parameters like so:
private static String domainToLookup = "www.ezines.com";
NameValuePair[] params = 
{
  new NameValuePair("action", "http://www.domaintools.com/go/";),
  new NameValuePair("service", "whois"),
  new NameValuePair("q", domainToLookup)
};

Question 1: Is this the correct way to contstruct form parameters?
Question 2: Now that I've defined parameters I need to somehow add them
to my request. How do I do this?

Are there any code samples this scenario? 

Below is a listing of my shameful hack:

import java.io.IOException;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.DefaultHttpMethodRetryHandler;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.Header;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpClient;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpException;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpStatus;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.NameValuePair;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.GetMethod;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.params.HttpMethodParams;

public class QuestionToPost {
          private static String URL = "http://whois.domaintools.com//";;

          private static String domainToLookup = "www.ezines.com";

          public static void main(String[] args)
          {
                Header responseHeaders[] = null;
            // Create an instance of HttpClient.
            HttpClient client = new HttpClient();
            // Create a method instance.
            GetMethod method = new GetMethod(URL);
            method.setFollowRedirects(true);
            // Provide custom retry handler is necessary
        
method.getParams().setParameter(HttpMethodParams.RETRY_HANDLER,
                        new DefaultHttpMethodRetryHandler(3, false));

            try 
            {
                ////////////////////////////////////////////////
                // Get the page with the form
                ////////////////////////////////////////////////
                // Execute the method.
              int statusCode = client.executeMethod(method);

              if (statusCode != HttpStatus.SC_OK) {
                System.err.println("Method failed: " +
method.getStatusLine());
              }
              responseHeaders = method.getResponseHeaders();
              ////////////////////////////////////////////////          
          // Prepare parameters
          ////////////////////////////////////////////////
          NameValuePair[] params = 
          {
                  new NameValuePair("action",
"http://www.domaintools.com/go/";),
                  new NameValuePair("service", "whois"),
                  new NameValuePair("q", domainToLookup)
          };
          
          // What do I do next?
          
            } catch (HttpException e) {
              System.err.println("Fatal protocol violation: " +
e.getMessage());
              e.printStackTrace();
            } catch (IOException e) {
              System.err.println("Fatal transport error: " +
e.getMessage());
              e.printStackTrace();
            } 

            finally {
              // Release the connection.
              method.releaseConnection();
            }
          }
        } 

Thanks.
Steve-O