Java 1.0 only supports GET and POST requests to HTTP servers
Java 1.1/1.2 supports GET, POST, HEAD, OPTIONS, PUT, DELETE, and TRACE.
The protocol is chosen with the setRequestMethod(String method)
method.
A java.net.ProtocolException
, a subclass of IOException
, is thrown if an unknown
protocol is specified.
The getRequestMethod()
method returns the string form of the request method currently set for the
URLConnection. GET is the default method.