Java HTTP Post post(URL url, String content)

Description

post

License

Open Source License

Declaration

public static String post(URL url, String content) throws IOException 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/*//  w w  w.  j  ava  2  s .c  om
 * Copyright ? 2014 - 2016 | Wurst-Imperium | All rights reserved.
 * 
 * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
 * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
 * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
 */

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.DataOutputStream;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;

import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.Proxy;

import java.net.URL;

public class Main {
    public static String post(URL url, String content) throws IOException {
        return post(url, content, "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
    }

    public static String post(URL url, String content, String contentType) throws IOException {

        HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection(Proxy.NO_PROXY);
        connection.setRequestMethod("POST");
        connection.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", contentType);
        connection.setRequestProperty("Content-Length", "" + content.getBytes().length);
        connection.setRequestProperty("Content-Language", "en-US");
        connection.setUseCaches(false);
        connection.setDoInput(true);
        connection.setDoOutput(true);
        DataOutputStream output = new DataOutputStream(connection.getOutputStream());
        output.writeBytes(content);
        output.flush();
        output.close();

        BufferedReader input = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(connection.getInputStream()));
        StringBuffer buffer = new StringBuffer();
        for (String line; (line = input.readLine()) != null;) {
            buffer.append(line);
            buffer.append("\n");
        }
        input.close();
        return buffer.toString();
    }
}

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