package org.kuali.ole.utility;
   
   import org.slf4j.Logger;
   import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
   
   import java.io.BufferedReader;
   import java.io.InputStreamReader;
   import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
   import java.io.Writer;
  import java.net.URL;
  import java.net.URLConnection;
  
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   * User: ND6967
   * Date: 12/21/11
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  public class HttpUtil {
  
      private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(HttpUtil.class);
  
      public static String postData(String target, String content)
              throws Exception {
  
          String response = "";
          URL url = new URL(target);
          URLConnection conn = url.openConnection();
          conn.setDoInput(true);
          conn.setDoOutput(true);
          conn.setUseCaches(false);
          conn.setRequestProperty("Content-Type",
                  "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
  
          Writer w = new OutputStreamWriter(conn.getOutputStream(), "UTF-8");
          w.write(content);
          w.close();
          BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
                  conn.getInputStream()));
          String temp;
          while ((temp = in.readLine()) != null) {
              response += temp + "\n";
          }
          temp = null;
          in.close();
          LOG.debug("Server response: " + response);
          return response;
  
      }
  
  }