How to send XML POST request using Apache HttpClient?

Question

I want to make an HTTP POST format as follows:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <authRequest> <username>someusernamehere</username> <password>somepasswordhere</password> </authRequest> 

I usually work with the following mechanism for any input based POST,

 HttpParams params = new BasicHttpParams(); params.setParameter( "http.useragent", "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6"); DefaultHttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient(params); HttpPost httppost = new HttpPost("http://mysite.com/login"); List<NameValuePair> formparams = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>(); formparams.add(new BasicNameValuePair("username", "stackoverflow")); formparams.add(new BasicNameValuePair("password", "12345")); UrlEncodedFormEntity entity = new UrlEncodedFormEntity(formparams, "UTF-8"); httppost.setEntity(entity); HttpResponse httpresponse = httpclient.execute(httppost); 

But in this way, the POST data will look,

 username=stackoverflow&password=12345 

How can I format this request in accordance with the above XML format?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Use a different type of HttpEntity . There are a number of implementations listed at the top of the documentation .