ClientPost.java Source code

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import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;

import org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpClient;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpStatus;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.PostMethod;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.NameValuePair;

public class ClientPost extends HttpServlet {

    public void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
            throws ServletException, java.io.IOException {

        HttpClient httpClient = new HttpClient();
        PostMethod postMethod = new PostMethod("http://localhost:8080/home/viewPost.jsp");
        NameValuePair[] postData = { new NameValuePair("username", "devgal"),
                new NameValuePair("department", "development"), new NameValuePair("email", "devgal@yahoo.com") };
        //the 2.0 beta1 version has a
        // PostMethod.setRequestBody(NameValuePair[])
        //method, as addParameters is deprecated
        postMethod.addParameters(postData);
        httpClient.executeMethod(postMethod);
        //display the response to the POST method
        response.setContentType("text/html");
        java.io.PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
        //A "200 OK" HTTP Status Code
        if (postMethod.getStatusCode() == HttpStatus.SC_OK) {
            out.println(postMethod.getResponseBodyAsString());
        } else {
            out.println("The POST action raised an error: " + postMethod.getStatusLine());
        }
        //release the connection used by the method
        postMethod.releaseConnection();

    }

    public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
            throws ServletException, java.io.IOException {

        doPost(request, response);
    }
}