Initiating an HTTPS post via Oracle Forms 6i

Greetings all...
Here is my problem. I would love some advise/next steps on solving it.
We are currently using web-version of Forms 6i with the JInitiator 1.1.8.16. I have a new requirement for an existing form where it needs to initiate an HTTPS "post" (not "get") to a remote server and then receive a response of success or not and some other information that the form will then act upon. I believe this means I cannot simply use the "web.show_document" built-in because it uses the "get" method rather than the "post" method.
Although I am a veteran Forms developer, I am new to all this java stuff. It has been recommended to me that I incorportate a JavaBean into the form to call on this remote service, but I have no idea what that means -- I've never opened JDeveloper. It was also mentioned that maybe there is already a JavaBean in existence that I can just use. I don't know what details of my situation would be useful to know to determine if one exists or not. Does this possibly existing JavaBean need to know already which URL I want to go to? Will it need to know the exact parameters I want to pass or could there be a JavaBean out there to simply "call any URL using the post method" regardless of the number of parameters to send it?
I've looked through some of the forum for this question and since I'm clueless on java stuff, I didn't find anything that jumped out as an answer for me. Can someone (or many of you would be fine) clue me on the best approach? Thanx.
Shane.

Since the initial post above, I've discovered more to this situation that doesn't give me much hope of implementation.
The "response" that I get back from the remove service is simply a "redirect" telling the initiating browser to go to a URL that I have to set up. When the response comes back, the remote service will tell the browser to go to this redirected URL with the "responses" as parameters in the URL resulting in the user's browser calling this "redirect" URL with a "get" method.
Not sure what all that means to be honest, but am wanting to learn.
Shane.

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      service       = '443'
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CALL METHOD http_client->request->set_header_field
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CALL METHOD http_client->request->set_header_field
    EXPORTING
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CALL METHOD http_client->request->set_header_field
    EXPORTING
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CALL METHOD http_client->request->set_header_field
    EXPORTING
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CALL METHOD http_client->request->set_content_type
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CALL METHOD http_client->REQUEST->SET_HEADER_FIELD
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CALL METHOD http_client->request->SET_FORMFIELD_ENCODING
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      length = rlength.
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CALL METHOD http_client->receive
    EXCEPTIONS
      http_communication_failure = 1
      http_invalid_state         = 2
      http_processing_failed     = 3.
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wf_string1 = http_client->response->get_cdata( ).

Hi,
I had a similar problem and could resolve it by using APPEND_DATA instead of APPEND_CDATA. Likewise, SET_DATA instead of SET_CDATA might solve the issue for you. The data has to be provided as binary data then.
Regards,
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