From 9bcadc87cbe084168d8f7d3ed3468d6f2ce700a3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Julian Hyde <julianhyde@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 08:31:56 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] XMLA driver now uses HTTP POST (some server's don't support
 GET)

git-svn-id: https://olap4j.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/olap4j/trunk@57 c6a108a4-781c-0410-a6c6-c2d559e19af0
---
 src/org/olap4j/driver/xmla/XmlaOlap4jDriver.java | 10 +++++++++-
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/org/olap4j/driver/xmla/XmlaOlap4jDriver.java b/src/org/olap4j/driver/xmla/XmlaOlap4jDriver.java
index b3c9480..721157a 100644
--- a/src/org/olap4j/driver/xmla/XmlaOlap4jDriver.java
+++ b/src/org/olap4j/driver/xmla/XmlaOlap4jDriver.java
@@ -205,11 +205,19 @@ Future<byte[]> submit(
     }
 
     /**
-     * Implementation of {@link Proxy} which uses HTTP.
+     * Implementation of {@link Proxy} which uses HTTP POST.
      */
     protected static class HttpProxy implements Proxy {
         public byte[] get(URL url, String request) throws IOException {
+            // Open connection to manipulate the properties
             URLConnection urlConnection = url.openConnection();
+            urlConnection.setDoOutput(true);
+            urlConnection.setRequestProperty("content-type", "text/xml");
+
+            // Send data (i.e. POST). Assume default encoding.
+            urlConnection.getOutputStream().write(request.getBytes());
+
+            // Get the response, again assuming default encoding.
             InputStream is = urlConnection.getInputStream();
             final ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
             byte[] buf = new byte[1024];