FedEx Sun One server does not allow POST

Question

Hello,
I am attempting to communicate with FedEx's Direct XML Track. They use a Sun One Server v. 6.1 w/ SSL. When I do a POST with my XML document, I get back a 504, Method Not Allowed. Have communicated with FedEx technical support to no avail. Have downloaded server 6.1 and installed, trying to reverse-problem solve. Cannot see anywhere in the server where POSTs might be set to prohibited. The FedEx documentation specifically says to use a POST, which of course makes sense. Has anyone successfully used FedEx XML Direct, and/or could supply me with a hint as to why this might be happening? Also, am URL-encoding the reuest. Here's the code:
public class FedexHTTPS {
static final int HTTPS_PORT = 443;
public static String enc = "encoding='UTF-8'";
public static String subRequest = "<?xml version = '1.0' encoding = 'UTF-8'?><RequestHeader><AccountNumber>xxxxxxxxx</AccountNumber></RequestHeader>     <Contact><PersonName>name </PersonName><CompanyName>Ubercom</CompanyName><Department>ActiveIdentity</Department><PhoneNumber>xxxx</PhoneNumber><E-MailAddress>[email protected]</E-MailAddress></Contact><Address><Line1>12 main st</Line1><Line2/><City>Leesburg</City><StateOrProvinceCode>VA</StateOrProvinceCode><PostalCode>20111</PostalCode><CountryCode>US</CountryCode></Address></FDXSubscriptionRequest>>";
public static String address = "gatewaybeta.fedex.com";
public static void main(String argv[]) throws Exception {
String encData=null;
try {
encData = URLEncoder.encode(subRequest,"UTF-8");
} catch (Exception ex){
System.out.println("Exception: " + ex.getMessage());
//System.out.println(encData);
int length = encData.length();
// Get a Socket factory
SocketFactory factory = SSLSocketFactory.getDefault();
// Get Socket from factory
Socket socket = factory.createSocket(address, HTTPS_PORT);
/*BufferedWriter out = new BufferedWriter(new
OutputStreamWriter(socket.getOutputStream())); */
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(
new InputStreamReader(socket.getInputStream()));
OutputStream out = socket.getOutputStream();
String xmlEnc = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
String msg = "GET / HTTP/1.0\r\nContent-Length: " + length
+ "\r\nContent-Type: image/gif"
+ "\r\nReferer: www.EDS.com"
+ "\r\nHost: SSLserver.fedex.com"
+ "\r\nAccept-Encoding: image/jpeg"
+ "\r\nAccept: application/x-www-form-urlencoded, image/gif,image/jpeg,image pjpeg, text/plain,text/html/,*/*"
+ "\r\n\r\n" ;
out.write(msg.getBytes());
out.flush();
String line;
StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
while((line = in.readLine()) != null) {
sb.append(line);
out.close();
in.close();
System.out.println(sb.toString());
}

Answer 1

I cleaned up the XML (thanks) and re-did using jakarta - still get the 504 Not Allowed....
public class FedexPost {
      public static String subRequest = "<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><FDXSubscriptionRequest>     <RequestHeader>          <AccountNumber>1111111111</AccountNumber>     </RequestHeader>     <Contact>          <PersonName>name</PersonName>          <CompanyName>EDS</CompanyName>          <Department>ActiveIdentity</Department>          <PhoneNumber>7037773333</PhoneNumber>          <E-MailAddress>[email protected]</E-MailAddress>     </Contact>     <Address>          <Line1>10 Main St</Line1>          <Line2/>          <City>Anytown</City>          <StateOrProvinceCode>VA</StateOrProvinceCode>          <PostalCode>20175</PostalCode>          <CountryCode>US</CountryCode></Address></FDXSubscriptionRequest>";  
    public FedexPost() {
     * @param args the command line arguments
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        String encData=null;
        try {
           encData = URLEncoder.encode(subRequest,"UTF-8");
        } catch (Exception ex){
            System.out.println("Exception: " + ex.getMessage());
        // TODO code application logic here
        HttpClient httpclient = new HttpClient();
        PostMethod httpsPost = new PostMethod("https://gatewaybeta.fedex.com/");
        httpsPost.setRequestHeader("Connection", "close");
        try {
            httpsPost.setRequestEntity(new StringRequestEntity(encData, "application/x-www-form-urlencoded", "UTF-8"));
            httpclient.executeMethod(httpsPost);
            System.out.print(httpsPost.getStatusLine());
            System.out.println(httpsPost.getResponseBodyAsString());
        catch (IOException ex) {
            System.out.println(ex.getMessage());
        finally {
            httpsPost.releaseConnection();