Performing an HTTP post

Question

I am new to Java, and I am trying to automatically transfer HTML files that are created on a Sun Unix server to a Web server running M.S. IIS.
I am using SAS(Statistical Analysis Software) to create the HTML files using one of their output applications.
Is there any easy way to do this?
Basically I just want to take the HTML object on the Unix server and transfer that same object to the Web server saving over the file with the same name. I need to be able to do this automatically when a new HTML file is created on the Unix server; the purpose of wanting to do this is so that I will not have to keep manually transferring the files myself.
I was told this could be done doing an "HTTP POST", but I am not 100% sure what that entails.
I am avoiding XML at the moment since the HTML files are being created by the SAS software.
Thanks

Answer 1

To do a HTTP POST request, you do something like this (pseudocode):
URL url = new URL("http://www.myserver.com/something.cgi");
HttpURLConnection connection = url.openConnection();
connection.setRequestMethod("POST");
connection.connect();
OutputStream dataStream = connection.getOutputStream();
// now you write your post data to the dataStream...