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27
28 package org.apache.http.client.methods;
29
30 import java.net.URI;
31
32 /**
33 * HTTP POST method.
34 * <p>
35 * The HTTP POST method is defined in section 9.5 of
36 * <a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt">RFC2616</a>:
37 * </p>
38 * <blockquote>
39 * The POST method is used to request that the origin server accept the entity
40 * enclosed in the request as a new subordinate of the resource identified by
41 * the Request-URI in the Request-Line. POST is designed to allow a uniform
42 * method to cover the following functions:
43 * <ul>
44 * <li>Annotation of existing resources</li>
45 * <li>Posting a message to a bulletin board, newsgroup, mailing list, or
46 * similar group of articles</li>
47 * <li>Providing a block of data, such as the result of submitting a form,
48 * to a data-handling process</li>
49 * <li>Extending a database through an append operation</li>
50 * </ul>
51 * </blockquote>
52 *
53 * @since 4.0
54 */
55 public class HttpPost extends HttpEntityEnclosingRequestBase {
56
57 public final static String METHOD_NAME = "POST";
58
59 public HttpPost() {
60 super();
61 }
62
63 public HttpPost(final URI uri) {
64 super();
65 setURI(uri);
66 }
67
68 /**
69 * @throws IllegalArgumentException if the uri is invalid.
70 */
71 public HttpPost(final String uri) {
72 super();
73 setURI(URI.create(uri));
74 }
75
76 @Override
77 public String getMethod() {
78 return METHOD_NAME;
79 }
80
81 }