Alternative to (Deprecated)HttpRequest

Question

Now that most of the javafx.io.http package is Deprecated what is the alternative.

Answer 1

http://download.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/net/URL.html
* Use this to be certain string data is sent in ascii format.
static final Charset ASCII_CHARSET = Charset.forName("US-ASCII");
try {
     * Create the URL object.
    URL url = new URL("http://www.somwebsite.com/thepage.html?some_key=some_value");
    //Create the connection object from the url object.
    URLConnection connection = url.openConnection();
    //Since this is an Http URL, we can cast the URLConnection to something more specific.
    HttpURLConnection httpConnection = (HttpURLConnection) connection;
    //Tell it we are reading and writing.
    httpConnection.setDoInput(true);
    httpConnection.setDoOutput(true);
    //We are sending post headers, so set this appropriately.
    httpConnection.setRequestMethod("POST");
    //Tell it the MIME format of the request.
    httpConnection.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
    //Send the post headers.
    OutputStream outputStream = httpConnection.getOutputStream();
    outputStream.write("username=myusername&password=mypassword".getBytes(ASCII_CHARSET));
    outputStream.close();
    //Recieve whatever data here.
    InputStream inputStream = httpConnection.getInputStream();
    inputStream.close();
} catch (IOException ex) { //Something went wrong. Tell us what.
    ex.printStackTrace();
}I was a little distracted when writing this, so there may be errors. If you want to send large files, it gets much more complicated. Had to build my own class for that.
Edited by: aidreamer on Jun 17, 2011 6:38 PM