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This is my understanding of how to POST data on an http connection from Java:

 URL url = new URL("http://mario:8001/servlets/HighScoresServlet.class");
 URLConnection urlc = url.openConnection();
 HttpURLConnection http = (HttpURLConnection) urlc;
 http.setDoOutput(true);
 http.setMethod("POST");
 OutputStream out = http.getOutputStream();
 ...

In IE, the openConnection() call returns a
com.ms.net.wininet.http.HttpURLConnection
which is ***not a subclass of java.net.HttpURLConnection***!!!
(Thus causing a ClassCastException)

How the heck am I supposed to POST data without access to the
setMethod("POST") method in java.net.HttpURLConnection? Is this an attempt to
get me to write nonportable code? I want to move serialized objects to a
servlet, and POST is the only way. The default GET method is not what I want.

Thanks,
Ted

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