You can use java.net.HttpURLConnection or
org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpClient

for any HTTP methods. See the sample for HttpURLConnection.



URL url = new URL( "http", "localhost", 8800, "/TestServlet");

    URLConnection connection = url.openConnection();

    ((HttpURLConnection)connection).setRequestMethod( "POST");

    connection.setDoInput( true);

    connection.setDoOutput( true);

    OutputStreamWriter out = new OutputStreamWriter(

connection.getOutputStream());

    out.write( "MODE=SAMPLE&OUTPUT=HTML");

    out.write( "\r\n");

    out.flush();

    out.close();

   BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader( new InputStreamReader(

connection.getInputStream()));

    while ( br.ready()) {

     System.out.println( br.readLine());

    }





-     Chakravarthy









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Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 2:21 AM
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Subject: How to Use HTTP POST in standalone code



I am able to get the Server Response from a standalone code by passing

parameters appended to a URL, in a way it can be said Get method.I am not

clear how to use Post for the same, cos The Url length has a limitation in

processing the request.Any inputs will be of great help.





Please find the code below using URL to send the request.



import java.io.* ;

import java.net.* ;

import java.security.* ;

import java.util.* ;



class test{



public static void main(String [] args){

String inputfilename="";

String strLine="";

String strVar="";

int counter, numberOfTokens = 0;

inputfilename=args[0];

 try

 {

FileReader inputFileReaderdump  = new FileReader(inputfilename);

BufferedReader inputFile  = new BufferedReader(inputFileReaderdump);

while ((strLine = inputFile.readLine()) != null)

{

StringTokenizer strTokLine = new StringTokenizer(strLine, ",");

numberOfTokens = strTokLine.countTokens();

      String

XXX_URL="http://darkwing.brocade.com:8080/DEVPGC/JSP/PGACMultiItemReport.js

p?BPN=BPN&itemNumbers="+strLine;

               URL url = new URL(XXX_URL) ;

              URLConnection urlc = url.openConnection() ;

               urlc.setDoOutput(true);

               urlc.setDoInput(true);

BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader

(urlc.getInputStream())) ;

String responseXml = "" ;

String s = null ;

while ((s = br.readLine()) != null){

responseXml += s ;

}

System.out.println("[RESPONSE] " + responseXml) ;

}

}catch(Exception e){System.out.println(e.getMessage());

}



}



}



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