public boolean populate(CrawlURI curi, HttpClient http, HttpMethod method, String payload) { // http is not used. // payload is not used. boolean result = false; Map formItems = null; try { formItems = getFormItems(curi); } catch (AttributeNotFoundException e1) { logger.severe("Failed get of form items for " + curi); } if (formItems == null || formItems.size() <= 0) { try { logger.severe("No form items for " + method.getURI()); } catch (URIException e) { logger.severe("No form items and exception getting uri: " + e.getMessage()); } return result; } NameValuePair[] data = new NameValuePair[formItems.size()]; int index = 0; String key = null; for (Iterator i = formItems.keySet().iterator(); i.hasNext(); ) { key = (String) i.next(); data[index++] = new NameValuePair(key, (String) formItems.get(key)); } if (method instanceof PostMethod) { ((PostMethod) method).setRequestBody(data); result = true; } else if (method instanceof GetMethod) { // Append these values to the query string. // Get current query string, then add data, then get it again // only this time its our data only... then append. HttpMethodBase hmb = (HttpMethodBase) method; String currentQuery = hmb.getQueryString(); hmb.setQueryString(data); String newQuery = hmb.getQueryString(); hmb.setQueryString(((currentQuery != null) ? currentQuery : "") + "&" + newQuery); result = true; } else { logger.severe("Unknown method type: " + method); } return result; }