I have a server that takes a POST request and answers with a data stream. I have seen that on URL
I can open a connection or a stream. A stream, however, has no method for writing out data:
URL url = new URL("..."); url.openConnection(); //either I open a connection which has a output stream, but no input url.openStream(); //or I open a stream, but I cannot write anything out
How can I solve this problem elegantly?
Sample code snippet to use OutputStream.
Note: You can set content types & send some URL parameters to the URL only.
URL obj = new URL(url);//some url HttpURLConnection con = (HttpURLConnection) obj.openConnection(); con.setDoOutput(true); DataOutputStream wr = new DataOutputStream(con.getOutputStream()); String urlParams = "fName=xyz&lname=ABC&pin=12345"; // some parameters wr.writeBytes(urlParams); wr.flush(); wr.close();
Have a look at detailed explanation in this article1 and article2