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Subject: Re: very simple problem... how to post data to an HttpConnection...
From: Oleg Kalnichevski <olegk@apache.org>
To: httpclient-user@jakarta.apache.org
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Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 23:30:12 +0200
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Mike,
In fact, we strongly discourage the direct use of HttpConnection class.
The preferred way is to let the connection manager take care of the HTTP
connection business. Unless you have a real reason to use HttpConnection
class directly, I'd recommend that you use HttpClient instead

Something like that:
=====================================================================
HttpClient client = new HttpClient();
PostMethod httppost = new PostMethod("http://www.whatever.com");

File file = new File(args[0]);
httppost.setRequestBody(new FileInputStream(file));
httppost.setRequestContentLength((int)file.length());

try {
  client.executeMethod(httppost);
  if (httppost.getStatusCode() != HttpStatus.SC_OK) {
    System.out.println("Unexpected failure: " + httppost.getStatusLine());
  }
  System.out.println(httppost.getResponseBodyAsString());
} finally {
  httppost.releaseConnection();
}
=====================================================================

BTW, you are the first ever user to post to the httplclient-user list

;-)

Cheers,

Oleg


On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 22:52, Mike Y wrote:
> As you might guess from the subject, I'm new here
> 
> I'm attempting to use the 2.0.2 version of this
> project to create a connection, post data to it, and
> read the results, or at least get a Stream of output
> that I can pass someplace else.
> 
> I've been reading the Javadocs and tutorials for the
> last hour at least, the tutorials seem to reference an
> HttpMethod class which can't actually be found in the
> Javadocs or distribution. 
> 
> So, I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do. I have:
> 
> 1. String postRequest = " ... ";
> 2. HttpConnection c = new HttpConnection
> ("http://somesite/somedynamicpage.asp", 80);
> 3. c.setConnectionTimeout(someTimeoutValue);
> 
> 4. --- Need to post my request to my connection --
> 
> return c.getResponseInputStream();
> 
> I would greatly appreciate any help here.  I hope this
> is not a stupid question.  I saw and read the docs on
> the PostMethod, but it's not clear to me how this
> class interacts with HttpConnection.  This is likely
> the result of my own mental deficiencies.  
> 
> For what it is worth, the tutorial I was looking at
> was here:
> 
> http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/jakarta-commons/httpclient/src/examples/Attic/CustomHttpConnection.java?only_with_tag=HTTPCLIENT_2_0_BRANCH&view=markup).
> 
> --Mike
> 
> 
> 
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