I have to do a http post request to a web-service for authenticating the user with username and password. The Web-service guy gave me following information to construct HTTP Post request. POST /login/dologin HTTP/1.1 Host: webservice.companyname.com Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded Content-Length: 48 id=username&num=password&remember=on&output=xml The XML Response that i will be getting is <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <login> <message><![CDATA[]]></message> <status><![CDATA[true]]></status> <Rlo><![CDATA[Username]]></Rlo> <Rsc><![CDATA[9L99PK1KGKSkfMbcsxvkF0S0UoldJ0SU]]></Rsc> <Rm><![CDATA[b59031b85bb127661105765722cd3531==AO1YjN5QDM5ITM]]></Rm> <Rl><![CDATA[[email protected]]]></Rl> <uid><![CDATA[3539145]]></uid> <Rmu><![CDATA[f8e8917f7964d4cc7c4c4226f060e3ea]]></Rmu> </login> This is what i am doing HttpPost postRequest = new HttpPost(urlString); How do i construct the rest of the parameters?