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+/**
+ * <copyright> Copyright (c) 2006 by Know-Center, Graz, Austria </copyright>
+ * 
+ * This software is the confidential and proprietary information of Know-Center,
+ * Graz, Austria. You shall not disclose such Confidential Information and shall
+ * use it only in accordance with the terms of the license agreement you entered
+ * into with Know-Center.
+ * 
+ * KNOW-CENTER MAKES NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES ABOUT THE SUITABILITY OF
+ * THE SOFTWARE, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE
+ * IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR
+ * NON-INFRINGEMENT. KNOW-CENTER SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES SUFFERED BY
+ * LICENSEE AS A RESULT OF USING, MODIFYING OR DISTRIBUTING THIS SOFTWARE OR ITS
+ * DERIVATIVES.
+ * 
+ * $Id: BKUPostConnection.java,v 1.3 2006/10/11 07:56:10 wprinz Exp $
+ */
+package at.knowcenter.wag.egov.egiz.sig.connectors;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+
+import org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpClient;
+import org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpException;
+import org.apache.commons.httpclient.NameValuePair;
+import org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.PostMethod;
+import org.apache.commons.httpclient.params.HttpMethodParams;
+import org.apache.log4j.Logger;
+
+import at.knowcenter.wag.egov.egiz.cfg.ConfigLogger;
+
+/**
+ * @author wprinz
+ */
+public abstract class BKUPostConnection
+{
+  /**
+   * The logger definition.
+   */
+  private static final Logger logger_ = ConfigLogger.getLogger(BKUPostConnection.class);
+
+  /**
+   * This method connects the BKU server getting the request and the url. The
+   * request is an XML Message send and recieve by the HttpClient module. The
+   * Response message of the BKU server is is send back to the calling method.
+   * 
+   * @param url
+   *          the URL which the BKU server is running
+   * @param request
+   *          the request string (XML) to send.
+   * @return the response string (XML) of the BKU server
+   * @throws IOException
+   * @throws HttpException
+   *           ErrorCode:320
+   */
+  public static String doPostRequest(String url, String request) throws HttpException, IOException
+  {
+
+    PostMethod post_method = new PostMethod(url);
+
+    // It is very important to specify the charset of the content (the request)
+    // as UTF-8 this way.
+    // The HttpClient will then perform the URL encoding assuming that the
+    // request is UTF-8 as the BKU expects.
+    // If the MethodParams are omitted, the HttpClient will assume that the
+    // request is ISO-8859-1 and thereby the BKU cannot properly decode it.
+    HttpMethodParams method_params = new HttpMethodParams();
+    method_params.setContentCharset("UTF-8");
+    post_method.setParams(method_params);
+
+    // This is just a hint: do not set the content-type this way or the BKU will
+    // assume it as text/XML, but the HttpClient sends it as URL-encoded.
+    // The HttpClient will automatically generate the proper Content-Type:
+    // application/x-www-form-urlencoded
+    // post.addRequestHeader(new Header("Content-Type",
+    // "text/xml;charset=UTF-8"));
+
+    NameValuePair[] data = { new NameValuePair("XMLRequest", request) };
+    post_method.setRequestBody(data);
+
+    HttpClient http_client = new HttpClient();
+    int method_response = http_client.executeMethod(post_method);
+    logger_.debug("method_response = " + method_response);
+
+    byte[] response_body = post_method.getResponseBody();
+    String response_string = new String(response_body, "UTF-8");
+
+    // Alternatively this could be used.
+    // The HttpClient is assumed to use the Content-Type provided by the
+    // response.
+    // String response_string = post.getResponseBodyAsString();
+
+    return response_string;
+  }
+
+}