THE .NET WAY

import java.io.*;
import java.net.*;
import java.util.Properties;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;

public static String POST(String sURL, String sData)
   {
        try
        {
            URL url = new URL(sURL);
            URLConnection urlc = url.openConnection();
            urlc.setRequestProperty("Content-Type",    "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
            urlc.setDoOutput(true);
            OutputStream os = urlc.getOutputStream();

            byte[] postData = sData.getBytes();
            os.write(postData);

            os.flush();
            os.close();

            InputStream is = urlc.getInputStream();

            return parseISToString(is);

        }
        catch(IOException ex)
        {
            return ex.getMessage();
        }
   }

   public static String parseISToString(java.io.InputStream is)
   {

        java.io.DataInputStream din = new java.io.DataInputStream(is);
        StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();

        try
        {
            String line = null;
            while((line=din.readLine()) != null)
            {
                sb.append(line+"\n");
            }
            return sb.toString();
        }
        catch(Exception ex)
        {
            return ex.getMessage();
        }

   }