I am having difficulty POSTing and reading from a web server from GAE. I can authenticate but the webserver does not accept the XML file I am POSTing (which includes a query). I am not running the webserver in question, so I have no insight into what might be wrong at that end (or set it up differently).
First, a sanitized snippet of the curl statement that returns the desired result (on OSX): $ curl http://targetwebserver.org/servlet -u username:password -d '<? xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><Tag> .... </ Tag>' That to me confirm the webserver works alright. Below now a snippet of the code (sanitized and rough) that I cannot get to work. Again, authentication seems to work (I am not getting responseCode 401), but whatever I have tried, I cannot get over responseCode 400 and a corresponding boilerplate error message from the webserver. <--------- snip -------> String requestString = "<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><Tag> .... </Tag>"; // Also tried all sorts of encoding, no luck URL url = new URL("targetwebserver.org/servlet "); HttpURLConnection conn = (HttpURLConnection)url.openConnection(); conn.setRequestMethod("POST"); conn.setDoOutput(true); conn.setDoInput(true); conn.addRequestProperty("Content-type", "text/xml"); // tried "application/xml" as well, no luck // Authenticate (seems to work OK) String authData = "username:password"; byte[] encodedAuthData = new org.apache.commons.codec.binary.Base64().encode (authData.getBytes()); String authString = "Basic "; for (int i = 0; i < encodedAuthData.length; i++) authString += (char)encodedAuthData[i]; conn.addRequestProperty ("Authorization", authString); // Post request PrintWriter pw = new PrintWriter(conn.getOutputStream()); // tried OutputStreamWriter as well, no luck pw.println(requestString); pw.close(); responseCode = conn.getResponseCode(); if (responseCode == 200) { InputStream in = conn.getInputStream(); BufferedReader rd = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(conn.getInputStream())); String line; while ((line = rd.readLine()) != null) { log.info(line); } } <--------- snip -------> Please have a look at this - help's appreciated! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine for Java" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine-j...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine-java+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java?hl=en.
