HttpURLConnection

I am working on a program that sends a request to a url using standalone java. The code below works, but I don't want a bufferedReader object back, all i want to do is make the connection to the url and add "name=ryan&age=28" or whatever i may need to tail end of the URL. I know i could add the name and age logic to the url creation, but i would really like to find out how to use the DataOutputStream to do this.

Any help ? Thanks

package com.att.sdrs.ruby; import java.net.HttpURLConnection; import java.net.URL; import java.net.MalformedURLException; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.*; public class LecNotify{ public static void main(String [] args){ HttpURLConnection urlConn = null; BufferedReader in; try{ System.out.println("Starting LecNotify"); URL url = new URL("www.myurl.com"); urlConn = (HttpURLConnection)url.openConnection(); urlConn.setRequestMethod("GET"); urlConn.setDoInput (true); urlConn.setDoOutput (true); urlConn.setRequestProperty ("Content-Type","application/x-www-form-urlencoded"); //DataOutputStream out = new DataOutputStream(urlConn.getOutputStream()); //String content = "MYNAME=RYANBOHNERT"; //out.writeBytes (content); //out.flush(); //out.close(); in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(urlConn.getInputStream())); System.out.println("Done"); }catch(MalformedURLException e){ }catch(IOException e){ }catch(Exception e){ System.out.println(e.getMessage()); System.out.println(e.getStackTrace()); } } }

There are two HTTP methods to make requests: GET and POST.

With GET, the parameters are appended to the URL, after a ? and separated by &. So if you want do this with a GET request, you would have to change the URL to: http://www.myurl.com?name=ryan&age=28

With a POST request, you send the data in the request body, which is what you seem to want to do. Here is an example of how to do a POST from Java: http://exampledepot.com/egs/java.net/Post.html