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import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpClient;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.EntityEnclosingMethod;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.PostMethod;
/**
*
* This is a sample application that demonstrates
* how to use the Jakarta HttpClient API.
*
* This application sends an XML document
* to a remote web server using HTTP POST
*
* @author Sean C. Sullivan
* @author Ortwin Glück
* @author Oleg Kalnichevski
*/
public class PostXML {
/**
*
* Usage:
* java PostXML http://mywebserver:80/ c:\foo.xml
*
* @param args command line arguments
* Argument 0 is a URL to a web server
* Argument 1 is a local filename
*
*/
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
if (args.length != 2) {
System.out.println("Usage: java -classpath [-Dorg.apache.commons.logging.simplelog.defaultlog=] PostXML ]");
System.out.println(" - must contain the commons-httpclient.jar and commons-logging.jar");
System.out.println(" - one of error, warn, info, debug, trace");
System.out.println(" - the URL to post the file to");
System.out.println(" - file to post to the URL");
System.out.println();
System.exit(1);
}
// Get target URL
String strURL = args[0];
// Get file to be posted
String strXMLFilename = args[1];
File input = new File(strXMLFilename);
// Prepare HTTP post
PostMethod post = new PostMethod(strURL);
// Request content will be retrieved directly
// from the input stream
post.setRequestBody(new FileInputStream(input));
// Per default, the request content needs to be buffered
// in order to determine its length.
// Request body buffering can be avoided when
// = content length is explicitly specified
// = chunk-encoding is used
if (input.length() < Integer.MAX_VALUE) {
post.setRequestContentLength((int)input.length());
} else {
post.setRequestContentLength(EntityEnclosingMethod.CONTENT_LENGTH_CHUNKED);
}
// Specify content type and encoding
// If content encoding is not explicitly specified
// ISO-8859-1 is assumed
post.setRequestHeader("Content-type", "text/xml; charset=ISO-8859-1");
// Get HTTP client
HttpClient httpclient = new HttpClient();
// Execute request
int result = httpclient.executeMethod(post);
// Display status code
System.out.println("Response status code: " + result);
// Display response
System.out.println("Response body: ");
System.out.println(post.getResponseBodyAsString());
// Release current connection to the connection pool once you are done
post.releaseConnection();
}
}
