Question

I’ve read through the other excellent stack overflow articles and tried a lot of them and variations on them but must be making some basic error time and time again? The page I’m posting to works but when I run my java program I just get an empty set on the mySQL database that the data is being posted to. The direct URL that works would be:

http://myURL.co.uk/enteremail.php?email=value

the code

        String data = URLEncoder.encode("email", "UTF-8") + "=" + URLEncoder.encode("value1", "UTF-8");         

        URL url = new URL("http://myURL.co.uk/enteremail.php");
        URLConnection conn = url.openConnection();
        conn.setRequestMethod("POST");
        conn.setDoOutput(true);
        OutputStreamWriter wr = new OutputStreamWriter(conn.getOutputStream());
        wr.write(data);
        wr.flush();         
        wr.close();

I know that there are much better ways of doing this using java but I have to use this way as its a bit of a workaround for another problem.

TIA

Answer 1

I’d still like to know what was up with my original code, but because what I wanted to do was so simple I’ve just cut a corner and done this which works for sending the post request to a php page but may not be the solution for anything else:

        String email = "myEmail";
        URL post= new URL("http://myURL.co.uk/enteremail.php?email="+email);
        URLConnection goPost = post.openConnection();
        new InputStreamReader(goPost.getInputStream()); 

Hopefully of some help to someone else down the line, KISS