Send Form Data from Java: A Painless Solution : Page 3

InputStream is = new 
URL("hi.iq/register?name=J.Doe&email=abuse@spamcop.com").getInputStream();

In most cases, servers that process POST requests won't reject your GET request. Still, sometimes you'll have to POST instead of GET, particularly when you upload a file. Wouldn't having a solution like the form from Example 2 be nice? The corresponding Java request could look like this:

InputStream serverInput = ClientHttpRequest.post(
                              new java.net.URL("hi.iq/register"), 
                              new Object[] {
                                            "name", "J.Doe",
                                            "email", "abuse@spamcop.com",
                                            "test.txt", new 
File("C:\home\vp\tmp\test.txt")
                                           });

Unfortunately, so far no such solution exists.

The Solution: ClientHttpRequest
If you search the Internet, you will find some partial or complicated solutions for using POST requests in Java. The best commercial solution probably is JScape's HTTP(S) component. Its well-designed API covers everything specified in HTTP (see RFC 2068). Other solutions are either too weird and complicated (see Ronald Tschal

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