There's setDoOutput()
in URLConnection
. According to documentation I should
Set the DoOutput flag to true if you intend to use the URL connection for output, false if not.
Now I'm facing exactly this problem - the Java runtime converts the request to POST
once setDoOutput(true)
is called and the server only responds to GET
requests. I want to understand what happens if I remove that setDoOutput(true)
from the code.
What exactly will this affect? Suppose I set it to false
- what can I do now and what can't I do now? Will I be able to perform GET
requests? What is "output" in context of this method?