private PostMethod convertHttpServletRequestToPostMethod(String url, HttpServletRequest request) {
PostMethod postMethod = new PostMethod(url);
for (Enumeration headers = request.getHeaderNames(); headers.hasMoreElements(); ) {
String headerName = (String) headers.nextElement();
String headerValue = (String) request.getHeader(headerName);
postMethod.addRequestHeader(headerName, headerValue);
}
postMethod.removeRequestHeader("Host");
postMethod.addRequestHeader("Host", request.getRequestURL().toString());
for (Enumeration names = request.getParameterNames(); names.hasMoreElements(); ) {
String paramName = (String) names.nextElement();
String paramValue = (String) request.getParameter(paramName);
postMethod.addParameter(paramName, paramValue);
}
StringBuilder requestBody = new StringBuilder();
try {
BufferedReader reader = request.getReader();
String line;
while (null != (line = reader.readLine())) {
requestBody.append(line);
}
reader.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
requestBody.append("");
}
postMethod.setRequestEntity(new StringRequestEntity(requestBody.toString()));
return postMethod;
}
// sends packet to server as a http post method
private boolean sendPacketToServer(byte[] packet) {
try {
postMethod.removeRequestHeader("content-length");
RequestEntity request = new ByteArrayRequestEntity(packet);
postMethod.setRequestEntity(request);
client.executeMethod(postMethod);
} catch (IOException e) {
return false;
}
return true;
}