HttpURLConnection (501) problems

[iSeriesCodePoet]

History:
I am trying to do a "proof of concept" program to post files to a new purchased web application we have. I am trying to interface with the sevlet (I assume since it runs on Tomcat) using java. So co-workers of mine (who conveniently went on vaction left me with the sample. Well, since I have never worked with this sort of thing before I figured I would try connecting to Google first, so I don't mess up the application.

Problem:
Well, the sample of mine doesn't seem to work right, I keep on getting an error code 501 - Not Implemented error. The code I have posted below. What could be going wrong? Could Google be blocking those kind of requests?

Code:

import java.io.*;
import java.net.*;

public class Test {
    
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        
        try {
            // make the connection
            String urlstring = "[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.google.com/search";[/URL]
            String parameters = "q=Mike+Wills";
            URL url = new URL(urlstring);
            HttpURLConnection conn = (HttpURLConnection)url.openConnection();
            
            // post the parameters
            conn.setDoOutput(true);
            conn.setDoInput(true);
            conn.setRequestMethod("POST");
            conn.setRequestProperty("Content-length", String.valueOf(parameters.length()));
            OutputStreamWriter wr;
            wr = new OutputStreamWriter(conn.getOutputStream());
            wr.write(parameters);
            wr.flush();
            wr.close();
            
            // now let's get the results
            conn.connect();
            int responseCode = conn.getResponseCode();
            String responseMsg = conn.getResponseMessage();
            System.out.println(responseCode + " - " + responseMsg);
            if (responseCode > 200 && responseCode < 300){
                BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(conn.getInputStream()));
                StringBuffer results = new StringBuffer();
                String oneline;
                while ( (oneline = br.readLine()) != null) {
                    results.append(oneline);
                }
                br.close();
            }
            
        } catch(Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

Any help would be appreciated! iSeriesCodePoet
IBM iSeries (AS/400) Programmer

 

[meadandale]

Use GET instead of POST and change your url to this:

String urlstring = "

http://www.google.com/search?";

urlstring += parameters;