Sending octet stream with java given a uri

Question

In c# I'm able to do this:

        HttpWebRequest request = WebRequest.Create(address) as HttpWebRequest;
        request.Method = "POST";
        request.ContentType = "application/octet-stream";

        request.ContentLength = fileToSend.Length;
        request.Timeout = 2000000000;
        using (Stream requestStream = request.GetRequestStream())
        {
            // Send the file as body request.
            requestStream.Write(fileToSend, 0, fileToSend.Length);
            requestStream.Close();
        }

I'm looking for a similar object I can use in Java to take the role of HttpWebRequest, that will include a Stream.

Thanks!

edit: found this Using java.net.URLConnection to fire and handle HTTP requests but it seems much too complicated... Hopefully there is a simpler way of doing this?

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 09 '13 at 11:48

I recommend you look at Apache HTTP Client (http://hc.apache.org/httpclient-3.x/features.html).

If you need just query information from some resource, then standard JDK is enough:

java.net.URL url = new java.net.URL("http://foo.bar");
URLConnection conn = url.openConnection();
//conn.getOutputStream() to place information
//conn.getInputStream() to read resource

Sending octet stream with java given a uri

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