How to HTTPS Post?

Question

I am writing an application which needs to post form variables to a url and retrieve contents of that page for parsing, but am having problems getting it to work. The catch block of this code produces an IOException error
try
URL url = new URL("https://www.domain.com/post.cfm");
HttpURLConnection httpConnection = (HttpURLConnection)url.openConnection();
httpConnection.setRequestMethod("POST");
httpConnection.setAllowUserInteraction(true);
httpConnection.setFollowRedirects(true);
httpConnection.setDoOutput(true);
httpConnection.setDoInput(true);
httpConnection.setUseCaches(false);
httpConnection.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
httpConnection.connect();
DataOutputStream output = new DataOutputStream(httpConnection.getOutputStream());
String formData = "field1=1&field2=2";
output.writeBytes(formData);
output.flush();
BufferedInputStream httpStream = new BufferedInputStream(httpConnection.getInputStream());
byte b[] = new byte[1000];
int numRead = httpStream.read(b);
String httpContent = new String(b, 0, numRead);
while (numRead != -1)
numRead = httpStream.read(b);
if (numRead != -1)
String newContent = new String(b, 0, numRead);
httpContent += newContent;
httpStream.close();
output.close();
response.write(httpContent);
Data being posted needs to be transmitted via HTTPS SSL. I'm not sure whether the problem lies with a HTTPS request or my code. I borrowed some code from another forum on HTTP POST and modified similar code I used in other applications with HTTP GET. Help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

shouldn't that be HttpsURLConnection since you are connecting with the
HTTPS protocol and not HTTP.
also what is the exact error message that you are getting. can you paste
you stack trace?