Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; //License from project: Apache License import java.io.BufferedReader; import java.io.DataOutputStream; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.InputStreamReader; import java.net.HttpURLConnection; import java.net.URL; import java.util.ArrayList; import java.util.Iterator; import java.util.List; import java.util.Map; import org.apache.http.NameValuePair; import org.apache.http.client.utils.URLEncodedUtils; import org.apache.http.message.BasicNameValuePair; public class Main { public static String httpPost(String url, Map<String, String> params) { List<NameValuePair> lst = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>(); if (params != null) { Iterator<String> keyItors = params.keySet().iterator(); while (keyItors.hasNext()) { String key = keyItors.next(); String val = params.get(key); lst.add(new BasicNameValuePair(key, val)); } } return httpPost(url, lst); } public static String httpPost(String urlStr, List<NameValuePair> params) { String paramsEncoded = ""; if (params != null) { paramsEncoded = URLEncodedUtils.format(params, "UTF-8"); } String result = null; URL url = null; HttpURLConnection connection = null; InputStreamReader in = null; try { url = new URL(urlStr); connection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection(); connection.setDoInput(true); connection.setDoOutput(true); connection.setRequestMethod("POST"); connection.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"); connection.setRequestProperty("Charset", "utf-8"); DataOutputStream dop = new DataOutputStream(connection.getOutputStream()); dop.writeBytes(paramsEncoded); dop.flush(); dop.close(); in = new InputStreamReader(connection.getInputStream()); BufferedReader bufferedReader = new BufferedReader(in); StringBuffer strBuffer = new StringBuffer(); String line = null; while ((line = bufferedReader.readLine()) != null) { strBuffer.append(line); } result = strBuffer.toString(); } catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); } finally { if (connection != null) { connection.disconnect(); } if (in != null) { try { in.close(); } catch (IOException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } } } return result; } }