How to send data from a client to a server via the POST method.

[lackerstef]

I am trying to send a few NameValuePair pieces of data to a server. I wanted to know how I can turn my current GET request into a POST request so that the data encapsulation is not done so merely in a URL string. Here is what I am using now:

/**
     * Connect to the supplied URL using GET     
* @param urlString
     * @return true for we receive HTTP_OK from http call 
     */
 
    private boolean connectToURL(Location loc)
    {
 
        double latitude = loc.getLatitude();
        double longitude = loc.getLongitude();
        //double accuracy = loc.getAccuracy();
        //double altitude = loc.getAltitude();
        //double bearing = loc.getBearing();
 
        CoordinateConversion cc = new CoordinateConversion();
        String utmconverted = cc.latLon2UTM(latitude, longitude);
 
       String uArg="key="+URLEncoder.encode(key)+"&tag="+URLEncoder.encode(tag)+"&utm="+URLEncoder.encode(""+utmconverted)/*+"&bearing="+URLEncoder.encode(""+bearing)"&accuracy="+URLEncoder.encode(""+accuracy)+"&alt="+URLEncoder.encode(""+altitude)*/;
 //       String uArg="key="+URLEncoder.encode(key)+"&tag="+URLEncoder.encode(tag)+"&latitude="+URLEncoder.encode(""+latitude)+"&longitude="+URLEncoder.encode(""+longitude);
 
        String uString=url+uArg; //Assumes url ends with "/"
        Log.e("APP", "Output = "+uString);
        boolean res=false;
 
        try
        {        
 
 
 
            URL url=new URL(uString);
 
 
            URLConnection uConnection = url.openConnection();
 
            if (!(uConnection instanceof HttpURLConnection))                     
                return false;
 
            HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection) uConnection;
            connection.setRequestMethod("GET");
            connection.setInstanceFollowRedirects(true);
            connection.setAllowUserInteraction(false);
            connection.connect(); 
 
            if (connection.getResponseCode() == HttpURLConnection.HTTP_OK) 
            {
                res=true;
            }    
            connection.disconnect();
        }
        catch (Exception ex)
        {
            res=false; // If disconnect fails
        }
 
        return res;
 
 
 
 
    }

[jkmyoung]

Can't you simply set:
connection.setRequestMethod("POST");
?

Is there a specific problem you are having?

[lackerstef]

@jkmyoung
Will that not just send the URL again though? Thanks for the reply!