On Android, make a POST request with URL Encoded Form data without using UrlEncodedFormEntity

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_x000D_ _x000D_ I have a string that is already in the proper URLEncoded Form format and would like to send it through a POST request on Android to a PHP server. I know the method for sending URL encoded forms on Android uses the UrlEncodedFormEntity and I know how to use it. The problem with that is that the data comes into the function already URL encoded and joined by ampersands, so using UrlEncodedFormEntity would involve a lot of extra work to turn it into a List of NameValuePairs and I'd rather not. So, how do I make a proper POST request sending this string as the content body? I have already tried using StringEntity, but the PHP server didn't get any of the data (empty $_POST object). I am testing against http://test.lifewanted.com/echo.json.php which simply is

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manpreet Tuteehub forum best answer Best Answer 3 years ago
_x000D_ If you don't mind using an HttpURLConnection instead of the (recommended) HttpClient then you could do it this way: public void performPost(String encodedData) { HttpURLConnection urlc = null; OutputStreamWriter out = null; DataOutputStream dataout = null; BufferedReader in = null; try { URL url = new URL(URL_LOGIN_SUBMIT); urlc = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection(); urlc.setRequestMethod("POST"); urlc.setDoOutput(true); urlc.setDoInput(true); urlc.setUseCaches(false); urlc.setAllowUserInteraction(false); urlc.setRequestProperty(HEADER_USER_AGENT, HEADER_USER_AGENT_VALUE); urlc.setRequestProperty("Content-Type","application/x-www-form-urlencoded"); dataout = new DataOutputStream(urlc.getOutputStream()); // perform POST operation dataout.writeBytes(encodedData); int responseCode = urlc.getResponseCode(); in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(urlc.getInputStream()),8096); String response; // write html to System.out for debug while ((response = in.readLine()) != null) { System.out.println(response); } in.close(); } catch (ProtocolException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } catch (IOException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } finally { if (out != null) { try { out.close(); } catch (IOException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } } if (in != null) { try { in.close(); } catch (IOException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } } } }
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