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    <title>Ant-contrib Tasks: Http Tasks</title>
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    <h1>Post-Method</h1>
    The &lt;post-method&gt; task allows the caller to use the HTTP POST
    method to send data to an arbitrary url.  This data can be one of the
    following:
    <ul>
    <li>Name/Value pairs</li>
    <li>File content</li>
    <li>Text content</li>
    <li>Multi-part content</li>
    </ul>
    This method inherits the <a href="method_task_common.html">
    Common Method</a> attributes and subelements.  It also contains
    the following additional attributes and subelements:


    <h2>Parameters</h2>
    <table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0">
      <tr>
        <th>Attribute</th>
        <th>Description</th>
        <th>Required</th>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td valign="top"><i>multipart</i></td>
        <td valign="top">Should multipart content be forced, even if
          only a single file or text part is specified.</td>
        <td align="center" valign="top">No.</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td valign="top"><i>parameters</td>
        <td valign="top">A java .properties file which contains post parameters.</td>
        <td align="center" valign="top">No.</td>
      </tr>
    </table>
    
    <h2>Parameters specified as Nested Elements</h2>
    

    <br />
    <br />
    <b>&lt;parameter&gt;</b><br />
    <p>
    Create a text post parameter.
    </p>
    <table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0">
      <tr>
        <th>Attribute</th>
        <th>Description</th>
        <th>Required</th>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td valign="top"><i>name</i></td>
        <td valign="top">The parameter name.</td>
        <td align="center" valign="top">Yes.</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td valign="top"><i>value</i></td>
        <td valign="top">The parameter value.</td>
        <td align="center" valign="top">Yes.</td>
      </tr>
    </table>

    <br />
    <br />
    <b>&lt;file&gt;</b><br />
    <p>
    Add a File part to the request.
    </p>
    <table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0">
      <tr>
        <th>Attribute</th>
        <th>Description</th>
        <th>Required</th>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td valign="top"><i>name</i></td>
        <td valign="top">The parameter name.</td>
        <td align="center" valign="top">Yes.</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td valign="top"><i>path</i></td>
        <td valign="top">The file path to send.</td>
        <td align="center" valign="top">Yes.</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td valign="top"><i>contentType</i></td>
        <td valign="top">The content type of the file.</td>
        <td align="center" valign="top">No.</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td valign="top"><i>charSet</i></td>
        <td valign="top">The character set.</td>
        <td align="center" valign="top">No.</td>
      </tr>
    </table>

    <br />
    <br />
    <b>&lt;text&gt;</b><br />
    <p>
    Add a Text part to the request.
    </p>
    <table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0">
      <tr>
        <th>Attribute</th>
        <th>Description</th>
        <th>Required</th>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td valign="top"><i>name</i></td>
        <td valign="top">The parameter name.</td>
        <td align="center" valign="top">Yes.</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td valign="top"><i>value</i></td>
        <td valign="top">The string value to send.  This may
        also be specified as nested text to this element.</td>
        <td align="center" valign="top">Yes.</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td valign="top"><i>contentType</i></td>
        <td valign="top">The content type of the file.</td>
        <td align="center" valign="top">No.</td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td valign="top"><i>charSet</i></td>
        <td valign="top">The character set.</td>
        <td align="center" valign="top">No.</td>
      </tr>
    </table>


    <h2>Examples</h2>


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    rights Reserved.</p>

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