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31
32 import java.io.File JavaDoc;
33
34 import org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpClient;
35 import org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.FileRequestEntity;
36 import org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.PostMethod;
37 import org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.RequestEntity;
38
39 /**
40  *
41  * This is a sample application that demonstrates
42  * how to use the Jakarta HttpClient API.
43  *
44  * This application sends an XML document
45  * to a remote web server using HTTP POST
46  *
47  * @author Sean C. Sullivan
48  * @author Ortwin Glueck
49  * @author Oleg Kalnichevski
50  */
51 public class PostXML {
52
53     /**
54      *
55      * Usage:
56      * java PostXML http://mywebserver:80/ c:\foo.xml
57      *
58      * @param args command line arguments
59      * Argument 0 is a URL to a web server
60      * Argument 1 is a local filename
61      *
62      */
63     public static void main(String JavaDoc[] args) throws Exception JavaDoc {
64         if (args.length != 2) {
65             System.out.println("Usage: java -classpath <classpath> [-Dorg.apache.commons.logging.simplelog.defaultlog=<loglevel>] PostXML <url> <filename>]");
66             System.out.println("<classpath> - must contain the commons-httpclient.jar and commons-logging.jar");
67             System.out.println("<loglevel> - one of error, warn, info, debug, trace");
68             System.out.println("<url> - the URL to post the file to");
69             System.out.println("<filename> - file to post to the URL");
70             System.out.println();
71             System.exit(1);
72         }
73         // Get target URL
74 String JavaDoc strURL = args[0];
75         // Get file to be posted
76 String JavaDoc strXMLFilename = args[1];
77         File JavaDoc input = new File JavaDoc(strXMLFilename);
78         // Prepare HTTP post
79 PostMethod post = new PostMethod(strURL);
80         // Request content will be retrieved directly
81 // from the input stream
82 RequestEntity entity = new FileRequestEntity(input, "text/xml; charset=ISO-8859-1");
83         post.setRequestEntity(entity);
84         // Get HTTP client
85 HttpClient httpclient = new HttpClient();
86         // Execute request
87 try {
88             int result = httpclient.executeMethod(post);
89             // Display status code
90 System.out.println("Response status code: " + result);
91             // Display response
92 System.out.println("Response body: ");
93             System.out.println(post.getResponseBodyAsString());
94         } finally {
95             // Release current connection to the connection pool once you are done
96 post.releaseConnection();
97         }
98     }
99 }
100
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