HttpURLConnection is not giving the expected output.

Question

I am using HttpURLConnection to post a URL to a server which will return back an xml. I am using the following code and it's only returning a HTML page as output.
Code :
URL url = new URL(strURL);
HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection)url.openConnection();
connection.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "text/xml");
connection.setDoOutput(true);
connection.setRequestMethod("POST");
OutputStreamWriter out = new OutputStreamWriter(connection.getOutputStream());
out.write(sbContent.toString());
out.flush();
out.close();
in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(connection.getInputStream()));
String inputLine = "";
StringBuffer outputString=new StringBuffer();
while ((inputLine = in.readLine()) != null) {
     outputString.append(inputLine);
in.close();               
The outputString here returns a HTML, but it is suppose to return back an XML.
Can anyone help me out in this.?
Thanks,

Answer 1

Hi,
Yeah, I saw the logger and it's returning a HTML page which is the authorization page to enter the Server which I am posting the URL. It's not the HTML version of the XML file which I am expecting.
Is the way which I am passing the session parameter correct? Please find below the code snippet for the method which I have.
Thanks,
Mala.S
public Document parseFileLeaveDetails(String sDate, String eDate, String strUpi, String sessionParam) {
     String larsURLFromProp = ProjPortalIRIS4URLs.getIRIS4URLsFromProperty("LeaveDetails");
     BufferedReader in;
     Document doc = null;
try {
     StringBuffer sbContent = new StringBuffer();
     sbContent.append("&start_dt=");
     sbContent.append(sDate);
     sbContent.append("&end_dt=");
     sbContent.append(eDate);
     sbContent.append(strUpi);
     sbContent.append("&SMSESSION=");
     sbContent.append(sessionParam);
     logger.debug("sbContent::"+sbContent);
     URL url = new URL(larsURLFromProp);
     logger.debug("The url is:::"+url);
     HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection)url.openConnection();
     connection.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "text/xml");
     connection.setDoOutput(true);
     connection.setRequestMethod("POST");
     OutputStreamWriter out = new OutputStreamWriter(connection.getOutputStream());
     out.write(sbContent.toString());
     out.flush();
     out.close();
     in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(connection.getInputStream()));
     String inputLine = "";
     StringBuffer outputString=new StringBuffer();
     while ((inputLine = in.readLine()) != null) {
     logger.debug("inputLine::::"+inputLine);
          outputString.append(inputLine);
     in.close();               
     doc = parseFileLeave(outputString.toString());
     } catch(MalformedURLException me) {
     logger.debug("MarformedException ::"+me.getMessage());
     } catch(IOException ioe) {
     logger.debug("IOException ::"+ioe.getMessage());
     return doc;
}