Transfering text data to a web server using Java

I'm trying to write to a text file on my web server using HttpURLConnection.getOutputStream(). I have tried this on two different servers without success.

I have added a FileWriter to test the InputStream, and that file is created on a local directory correctly, but nothing is showing up on the in the web server directory, even with all password protection off.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

URL url;
    try {
        url = new URL("http://www.myWebsite.com/myFile.txt");

           HttpURLConnection urlConnection = null;

            try {
                urlConnection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();


                try {
                    urlConnection.setDoOutput(true);
                    urlConnection.setDoInput(true);


                    OutputStream in = new BufferedOutputStream(urlConnection.getOutputStream());

                     InputStream fin1;
                        try {
                            fin1 = new FileInputStream(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory() + "/fileToRead.txt");
                            FileWriter fWriter = new FileWriter(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory() + "/fileToWrite.txt");

                            int data = fin1.read();
                            while(data != -1) {

                            fWriter.write(data);
                            in.write(data);
                              data = fin1.read();
                            }



                            fWriter.flush();
                            fWriter.close();

                            fin1.close();

                            in.flush();
                            in.close();

                        } ca开发者_JAVA百科tch (FileNotFoundException e31) {
                            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                        } catch (IOException e) {
                            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                    }
                   } catch (IOException e) {
                    // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                    e.printStackTrace();
                                        }
                    finally {
                     urlConnection.disconnect();
                   }
            } catch (IOException e4) {
                                    // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                e4.printStackTrace();
            }
    } catch (MalformedURLException e4) {
        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
        e4.printStackTrace();
    }

You have to call getInputStream() on the urlConnection in order to get the output stream to flush out the socket to the remote server.

See the discussion here: Why do you have to call URLConnection#getInputStream to be able to write out to URLConnection#getOutputStream?

You are catching the IOException (Right after the IOException) but are not doing anything with it. At least print the stack trace.

You can also use Apache's Http Client http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/index.html

Much easier than getting URLConnection to work.