Generic service() for request, specify POST for response?

Question

I'm designing a servlet that can communicate with Macromedia's FLASH. This program does things a little strangely. It has a myXML.sendAndLoad() method which sends an xml object to a server, and expects one back (the objects are serialised as a single unwrapped text line). It claims to send using POST, but actually, when you look at the headers, is sends using GET, and then appends the data in a seperate transmission (in the body of the request) as POST would.
to get around this annoyence, I'm reading in the data like this
public void service(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse resp)
     throws ServletException, IOException
          //Read the xml from the HTTP request into a String
          BufferedReader reader = req.getReader();
          String xmlString = reader.readLine();this works fine.
Just one thing - FLASH will expect the response to be POST. At the moment FLASH receives a response, but can't decipher it as (I assume) the service() method sends a response back in the same format that it received the request.
Q - how do I keep the service() bit for receiving th request, but specify a doPost() for the response?
thanks for any help
RT

Answer 1

That's what I'm doing. However, I should think (though I'm not sure) that when the service method is called, it fires a doGet (as the req Header is GET). Therefore (?) the response would also be a GET . OK, the output will be written to the body with this method, but I think FLASH needs a POST. Am not sure on the last one - but no one else seems to be either!