HTTP Tunneling - Developing Java Servlets - page 61

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try {

// Set this to false in order to ignore caching
connection.setUseCaches(false);

// Set the content-type of the request
// application/octet-stream is used when writing
// application specific byte size data
connection.setRequestProperty(“CONTENT_TYPE”,
“application/octet-stream”);

// Set these vales to true to use the same connection
// for both input and output
connection.setDoInput(true);
connection.setDoOutput(true);

// Create the ObjectOutputStream passing it the
// OutputStream object.
ObjectOutputStream os =
new ObjectOutputStream(connection.getOutputStream());

// Write the StudentList to the ObjectOutputStream
System.err.println(“Writing StudentList Object.”);
os.writeObject(value);
os.flush();
os.close();

}
catch (IOException e) {

System.err.println(e.getMessage());

}

}

public StudentList readStudentList(URLConnection connection)
{

StudentList list = null;

try {

// Create the ObjectInputStream passing it the
// InputStream object from the URLConnection
ObjectInputStream is = new ObjectInputStream(
connection.getInputStream());