Hi everyone,

I am using a lot of HTTP Requests in an application that I am writing which uses OAuth. Currently, I am sending my GET and POST requests the same way:

HttpConnection connection = (HttpConnection) Connector.open(url
                    + connectionParameters);

            connection.setRequestMethod(method);
            connection.setRequestProperty("WWW-Authenticate",
                    "OAuth realm=api.netflix.com");

            int responseCode = connection.getResponseCode();

And this is working fine. I am successfully POSTing and GETing. However, I am worried that I am not doing POST the right way. Do I need to include in the above code the following if-statement?

if (method.equals("POST") && postData != null) {
                    connection.setRequestProperty("Content-type",
                            "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
                    connection.setRequestProperty("Content-Length", Integer
                            .toString(postData.length));
                    OutputStream requestOutput = connection.openOutputStream();
                    requestOutput.write(postData);
                    requestOutput.close();
                }

If so, why? What's the difference? I would appreciate any feedback.

Thanks!