I am trying to access a page where I am sending a chunk of data using POST....at first it was doing well and posting the data and I was able to insert the data properly to my external db. All of a sudden, its failing to do proper request and I am getting status code of 400 in my Log. The procedure I am following is below.
URL url;
try {
url = new URL(endpoint);
} catch (MalformedURLException e) {
throw new IllegalArgumentException("invalid url: " + endpoint);
}
StringBuilder bodyBuilder = new StringBuilder();
Iterator<Entry<String, String>> iterator = params.entrySet().iterator();
// constructs the POST body using the parameters
while (iterator.hasNext()) {
Entry<String, String> param = iterator.next();
bodyBuilder.append(param.getKey()).append('=').append(param.getValue());
if (iterator.hasNext()) {
bodyBuilder.append('&');
}
}
String body = bodyBuilder.toString();
Log.v(TAG, "Posting '" + body + "' to " + url);
byte[] bytes = body.getBytes();
HttpURLConnection conn = null;
try {
Log.e("URL", "> " + url);
conn = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
conn.setDoOutput(true);
conn.setUseCaches(false);
conn.setFixedLengthStreamingMode(bytes.length);
conn.setRequestMethod("POST");
conn.setRequestProperty("Content-Type","application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8");
// post the request
OutputStream out = conn.getOutputStream();
out.write(bytes);
out.close();
// handle the response
int status = conn.getResponseCode();
if (status != 200) {
throw new IOException("Post" + status);
}
} finally {
if (conn != null) {
conn.disconnect();
}
}
}
when I check the status I get java.io.IOException with status code of 400. Please let me know where am I doing wrong. N.B:- When I manually enter the value to the page through browser, it works well. Does it have anything to do with encoding of data.
