How to send text by HttpPost method?

Question

I have no idea, how to send some text using HTTPCLIENT (java // apache) library. I need to send parameters by text to server. Any idea?

Answer 1

Assume you have some-remote-server as your remote server address and some-servlet as your remote servlet which accepts param1 , param2 etc.. with its respective values on request. If the remote servlet accept GET call you can use below to send the request;

  HttpClient httpClient = new HttpClient();
  GetMethod getMethod = new GetMethod(); //You could use PostMethod if servlet accept POST

  String request ="http://some-remote-server/some-servlet?param1=value1&param2=value2";
  httpClient.getHttpConnectionManager().getParams().setConnectionTimeout(5000);
  getMethod.setURI(new URI(request, false, null));
  ...

And then recieve the response return from the remote servlet like this;

ObjectInputStream ois = new ObjectInputStream(getMethod.getResponseBodyAsStream());
ois.readObject();

Answer 2

If you can change the tool, try RestClient Tool for eclipse. It has great support for testing restful web-services. It has option to specify,

1. Header Parameter,
2. Query Parameter,
3. Body Text
4. Request type (GET,POST,PUT,DELETE,HEAD,OPTIONS,TRACE)