Post XML over HTTPS

Question

We are trying to do the following. Can anyone help by providing any pointers as how to do it.
1. A java client will be posting XML over http(s) to the Tomcat server.
2. The Tomcat server has to do the following:
- Validate the user credentails and verify that it is an valid user on IDM
- Do some DB operations and return back a response XML
We are trying to do this by having the Java client post XML over http to a jsp hosted on the Tomcat server
How do i retrieve the XML data from the HTTP post (from the HTTP body) ?
Thanks

Answer 1

try the below example to read data over https,
import java.net.*;
import java.io.*;
import javax.net.ssl.*;
public class SSLSocketClient {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
     String url="https://secure.com";
          try {
               SSLSocketFactory factory = (SSLSocketFactory)SSLSocketFactory.getDefault();
            SSLSocket socket = (SSLSocket)factory.createSocket(url, 443);
            socket.startHandshake();
            /* read response */
            BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(socket.getInputStream()));
            String inputLine;
            while ((inputLine = in.readLine()) != null)
                System.out.println(inputLine);
            in.close();
            socket.close();
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
}