Calling servlet through HttpURLConnection

Question

hi guyz ....
I am trying to call a servlet, hosted on Tomcat/4.0.3. It is accepting two parameters. I am using the following program to call it, but it is continuously throwing exception Exception in thread "main" java.io.FileNotFoundException: http://202.141.230.246:8080/examples/servlet/AServlet. When I paste the above same url in browser, it works fine, also other servlets at the same location are working fine from my program and browser. For your convenience, the effective part of the code is given below:
      URL url = new URL("http://202.141.230.246:8080/examples/servlet/JndiServlet");
      URLConnection connection = (URLConnection) url.openConnection();
      //connection.setRequestMethod("POST");
      connection.setDoOutput(true);
      PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(connection.getOutputStream());
      // encode the message
      String name = "s="+URLEncoder.encode("Qusay Mahmoud");
      String email = "name="+URLEncoder.encode("[email protected]");
      // send the encoded message
      out.println(name+"&"+email);
      out.close();
      BufferedReader in =
                new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(connection.getInputStream()));
      String line;
      while ((line = in.readLine()) != null)
         System.out.println(line);
      in.close();Exception is thrown on the line where i am creating an instance of BufferedReader class.
Any help will be of great value.
Raheel.

Answer 1

hi again .... a slight change in code fragment.
plz help !!!!
URL url = new URL("http://202.141.230.246:8080/examples/servlet/AServlet");     
   HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();     
   connection.setRequestMethod("POST");     
   connection.setDoOutput(true);     
   PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(connection.getOutputStream());     
   // encode the message     
   String name = "id="+URLEncoder.encode("Qusay Mahmoud");     
   String email = "name="+URLEncoder.encode("[email protected]");     
   // send the encoded message     
   out.println(name+"&"+email);     
   out.close();     
   BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(connection.getInputStream()));     
   String line;     
   while ((line = in.readLine()) != null)     
        System.out.println(line);     
   in.close();