Java - sending HTTP parameters via POST method easily

Question

I am successfully using this code to send HTTP requests with some parameters via GET method

void sendRequest(String request)
{
            


        

Answer 1

I couldn't get Alan's example to actually do the post, so I ended up with this:

String urlParameters = "param1=a¶m2=b¶m3=c";
URL url = new URL("http://example.com/index.php");
URLConnection conn = url.openConnection();

conn.setDoOutput(true);

OutputStreamWriter writer = new OutputStreamWriter(conn.getOutputStream());

writer.write(urlParameters);
writer.flush();

String line;
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(conn.getInputStream()));

while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
    System.out.println(line);
}
writer.close();
reader.close();