JAVA – How To Post To A HTML/PHP Post Form

This example shows how to build up a string to post to a web form, and return the results generated.

Element1 is the first variable the the post accepts – “Value 1” is the literal string bieng passed to it.
Element2 is the second variable that the post accepts – “Value 2” is the literal string bieng passed to it.
Element3 is the third variable that the post accepts – “Value 2” is the literal string bieng passed to it.

http://www.examplewebsite.asp is the web page that the data is bieng posted to.

 

//Create Post String
String data = URLEncoder.encode(“Element1”, “UTF-8”) + “=” + URLEncoder.encode(“Value 1”, “UTF-8”);
data += “&” + URLEncoder.encode(“Element2”, “UTF-8”) + “=” + URLEncoder.encode(“Value 2”, “UTF-8”);
data += “&” + URLEncoder.encode(“Element3”, “UTF-8”) + “=” + URLEncoder.encode(“Value 3”, “UTF-8”);
                
         
// Send Data To Page
URL url = new URL(“http://www.examplewebsite.asp”);
URLConnection conn = url.openConnection();
conn.setDoOutput(true);
OutputStreamWriter wr = new OutputStreamWriter(conn.getOutputStream());
wr.write(data);
wr.flush();
   
// Get The Response
BufferedReader rd = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(conn.getInputStream()));
String line;
while ((line = rd.readLine()) != null) {
        System.out.println(line);
        //you Can Break The String Down Here
}

 

You can manipulate the line variable to read in the information returned from the post.