/**
* Send out a DELETE-HTTP request. Errors will be logged, returned values just ignored.
*
* @param url the URL to be used for the DELETE request.
* @return the response body or <code>NULL</code> when the request went wrong
*/
public static String sendHttpDeleteRequest(String url) {
return HttpUtil.executeUrl("DELETE", url, 1000);
}
/**
* Send out a POST-HTTP request. Errors will be logged, returned values just ignored.
*
* @param url the URL to be used for the POST request.
* @return the response body or <code>NULL</code> when the request went wrong
*/
public static String sendHttpPostRequest(String url) {
return HttpUtil.executeUrl("POST", url, 1000);
}
/**
* Send out a POST-HTTP request. Errors will be logged, returned values just ignored.
*
* @param url the URL to be used for the POST request.
* @param contentType the content type of the given <code>content</code>
* @param content the content to be send to the given <code>url</code> or <code>null</code> if no
* content should be send.
* @return the response body or <code>NULL</code> when the request went wrong
*/
public static String sendHttpPostRequest(String url, String contentType, String content) {
return HttpUtil.executeUrl("POST", url, IOUtils.toInputStream(content), contentType, 1000);
}
/**
* Send out a GET-HTTP request. Errors will be logged, returned values just ignored.
*
* @param url the URL to be used for the GET request.
* @return the response body or <code>NULL</code> when the request went wrong
*/
public static String sendHttpGetRequest(String url) {
return HttpUtil.executeUrl("GET", url, 5000);
}