I am trying to upload files using Java URL class and I have found a previous question on stack-overflow which explains very well about the details, so I try to follow it. And below is my code adopted from the sniplet given in the answer.

My problem is that if I don't make a call to one of connection.getResponseCode() or connection.getInputStream() or connection.getResponseMessage() or anything which is related to reponse from the server, the request will never be sent to server. Why do I need to do this? Or is there any way to write the data without getting the response?

P.S. I have developed a server-side uploading servlet which accepts multipart/form-data and save it to files using FileUpload. It is stable and definitely working without any problem so this is not where my problem is generated.

import java.io.Closeable;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.URL;
import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;

public class URLUploader {

    public static void closeQuietly(Closeable... objs) {
        for (Closeable closeable : objs) {
            IOUtils.closeQuietly(closeable);
        }
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
        File textFile = new File("D:\\file.zip");
        String boundary = Long.toHexString(System.currentTimeMillis()); // Just generate some unique random value.

        HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection) new URL("http://localhost:8080/upslet/upload").openConnection();
        connection.setDoOutput(true);
        connection.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "multipart/form-data; boundary=" + boundary);
        OutputStream output = output = connection.getOutputStream();

        PrintWriter writer = writer = new PrintWriter(output, true);
        // Send text file.
        writer.println("--" + boundary);
        writer.println("Content-Disposition: form-data; name=\"file1\"; filename=\"" + textFile.getName() + "\"");
        writer.println("Content-Type: application/octet-stream");
        FileInputStream fin = new FileInputStream(textFile);
        writer.println();
        IOUtils.copy(fin, output);
        writer.println();
        // End of multipart/form-data.
        writer.println("--" + boundary + "--");
        output.flush();
        closeQuietly(fin, writer, output);
        // Above request will never be sent if .getInputStream() or .getResponseCode() or .getResponseMessage() does not get called.
        connection.getResponseCode();
    }
}