21.5. Using POST and Processing the Results Directly (HTTP Tunneling)
With GET data, an applet has two options for the results of a submission: tell the browser to display the results (construct a URL object and call getAppletContext().showDocument) or process the results itself (construct a URL object, get a URLConnection, open an input stream, and read the results). These two options are discussed in Sections 21.1 and 21.3, respectively. With POST data, however, only the second option is available since the URL constructor has no method to let you associate POST data with it. Sending POST data has some of the same advantages and disadvantages as when applets send GET data. The two main disadvantages are that the server-side program must be ...
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