Question

I am creating httpClient and when I send httpPost method, how can I attach a body to the httpRequest ??

 public String httpPost(String URL, String BODY) {

    DefaultHttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
    HttpPost httpPost = new HttpPost(URL);



    try {

        response = httpclient.execute(httpPost); // get response from executing client

        StatusLine statusLine = response.getStatusLine();
        int statusCode = statusLine.getStatusCode();
        if (statusCode == HttpStatus.SC_OK) {
            body.append(statusLine + "\n");
            HttpEntity e = response.getEntity();
            String entity = EntityUtils.toString(e);
            body.append(entity);

        } else {
            body.append(statusLine + "\n");
            // System.out.println(statusLine);
        }
    } catch (ClientProtocolException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    } finally {
        httpPost.releaseConnection();
    }
    return body.toString();
}

For example, the string is
” < html > < header > Header < /header> < body> I am body < /body> “
Where do I attach that string to the request message ?
Thank you 🙂

Answer 1

You can create a StringEntity, set it to the HttpPost object, and set the correct Content-Type:

StringEntity entity = new StringEntity("data=" + java.net.URLEncoder.encode(body, "utf-8"));
entity.setContentType("application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
httpPost.setEntity(entity);

And then send your POST request as usual.