How to send PUT, DELETE HTTP request in HttpURLConnection?

To perform an HTTP PUT:

URL url = new URL("http://www.example.com/resource");HttpURLConnection httpCon = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();httpCon.setDoOutput(true);httpCon.setRequestMethod("PUT");OutputStreamWriter out = new OutputStreamWriter(    httpCon.getOutputStream());out.write("Resource content");out.close();httpCon.getInputStream();

To perform an HTTP DELETE:

URL url = new URL("http://www.example.com/resource");HttpURLConnection httpCon = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();httpCon.setDoOutput(true);httpCon.setRequestProperty(    "Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" );httpCon.setRequestMethod("DELETE");httpCon.connect();

This is how it worked for me:

HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();connection.setRequestMethod("DELETE");int responseCode = connection.getResponseCode();

public  HttpURLConnection getHttpConnection(String url, String type){        URL uri = null;        HttpURLConnection con = null;        try{            uri = new URL(url);            con = (HttpURLConnection) uri.openConnection();            con.setRequestMethod(type); //type: POST, PUT, DELETE, GET            con.setDoOutput(true);            con.setDoInput(true);            con.setConnectTimeout(60000); //60 secs            con.setReadTimeout(60000); //60 secs            con.setRequestProperty("Accept-Encoding", "Your Encoding");            con.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "Your Encoding");        }catch(Exception e){            logger.info( "connection i/o failed" );        }        return con;}

Then in your code :

public void yourmethod(String url, String type, String reqbody){    HttpURLConnection con = null;    String result = null;    try {        con = conUtil.getHttpConnection( url , type);    //you can add any request body here if you want to post         if( reqbody != null){                  con.setDoInput(true);                con.setDoOutput(true);                DataOutputStream out = new  DataOutputStream(con.getOutputStream());                out.writeBytes(reqbody);                out.flush();                out.close();            }        con.connect();        BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(con.getInputStream()));        String temp = null;        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();        while((temp = in.readLine()) != null){            sb.append(temp).append(" ");        }        result = sb.toString();        in.close();    } catch (IOException e) {        // TODO Auto-generated catch block        e.printStackTrace();        logger.error(e.getMessage());    }//result is the response you get from the remote side}