Java 1.0 only supported GET and POST requests to HTTP servers, but Java 1.1 allows the much broader range of requests specified in the HTTP/1.1 specification including GET, POST, HEAD, OPTIONS, PUT, DELETE, and TRACE.
Java 1.0 only supported GET and POST requests to HTTP servers, but Java 1.1 allows the much broader range of requests specified in the HTTP/1.1 specification including GET, POST, HEAD, OPTIONS, PUT, DELETE, and TRACE.
These are set with the void setRequestMethod(String method) method.
This method throws a java.net.ProtocolException, a subclass of IOException, if an unknown protocol is specified.