HttpURLConnection question on POST Method

[Kumar Jaya]

Hello,

I am using a HttpURLConnection to connect to a servlet. I am sending some request parameters on the client, which I am not able to receive in my servlet code.

Client Side
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URL servletURL = new URL ("http://localhost:8080/ABC/myservlet");
HttpURLConnection httpURLConnection = (HttpURLConnection) servletURL.openConnection();
httpURLConnection.setDefaultUseCaches(false);
HttpURLConnection.setDefaultAllowUserInteraction(false);
httpURLConnection.setDoInput(true);
httpURLConnection.setDoOutput(true);
httpURLConnection.setRequestMethod("POST");
httpURLConnection.setRequestProperty("Name", "Apple");

Servlet Side
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public void doPost(HttpServletRequest req........
String name = req.getParameter(new String("Name"));
System.out.println("Name :" + name);

prints Name: null

What am I missing?? Am I doing something wrong??

Regards
Jaya

[Ulf Dittmer]

"Request properties" are HTTP headers, not HTML form parameters. See #135 here for an example of how to POST using HttpURLConnection.

[Kumar Jaya]

Thanks Ulf, that was really useful.

Cheers,
Kumaravel J