Problems with HTTP POST - HttpConnection

Question

I am trying to send the data of a Textfield via a HttpConnection and POST Method.
Therefore, the Content-length request header is set to to length of the byte-Array accordingly.
Problem:
If Content-length is not set, the data is written to the output stream but then - i guess - the servlet doesn't parse the body of the request and request.getParameter("username") does not work from the servlet.
If it is set (Content-length), the data is not being transmitted!
connection = (HttpConnection)Connector.open("http://localhost:8080/servlet/VpeNetworkServlet");
connection.setRequestMethod(HttpConnection.POST);
//Build the Postmessage
String requestBody = "username=" + username;
//Transform the String to a Byte-Array
byte postMessage[] = requestBody.getBytes();
//set the length of content
//connection.setRequestProperty("Content-length", String.valueOf(postMessage.length));
//POST the data
os = connection.openOutputStream();
//Write it to the OutputStream
os.write(postMessage);
for (int i = 0; i < postMessage.length; i++)
os.
os.write(postMessage);
//flush the buffer!
os.flush();
Can anyone help?? Submitting via GET works perfectly, but I prefer POST over GET.
Thanx,
SVEN

Answer 1

Hi Yaron,
do you have any suggestion about encoding data? I really have no idea about this. How to encode data and which technique we should use?
Thanks
Udsy
Hi,
There are 2 things that may help you :
1. use:
connection.setRequestMethod(HttpConnection.POST,READ_WR
TE);
2. Use:
connection.setRequestProperty("Content-Type","applicati
n/x-www-form-urlencoded" );
Notice:
You need to encode the data before sending it ovet
http.
Hope it helps,
Yaron G.