Anyone help with emulating Java URLConnection?

From: Jochen Daum (jochen.daum_at_cabletalk.co.nz)
Date: 04/30/04 

Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 15:04:10 +1200

Hi,

I have to emulate a "file upload" to a Java Servlet which is done with
the class URLConnection.

The java source basically does

URLConnection conn = theurl.openConnection("https://somesite");
w = conn.getOutputStream();
w.write(...)

A thing I'm unclear of is if this connection is actually encrypted
over SSL. The other thing is if this just sends the bytes or also any
HTTP headers

I can think of three possible solutions:

Use fopen:

- I would have to recompile PHP for that and also it says:

"failed to open stream: HTTP wrapper does not support writeable
connections"

Use sockets:

- I have bad experiences with it being unreliable, if you read from
the connection and there are no bytes send. The timeout doesn't seem
to work. Also, I wouldn't know how the SSL would work with that.

Use curl:

- I would expect curl to always send a HTTP header, so I don't know if
its compatible.

Anyone here with Java experience that could help me?

Jochen 

-- 
Jochen Daum - Cabletalk Group Ltd.
PHP DB Edit Toolkit -- PHP scripts for building
database editing interfaces.
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