Metacat

 *  '$RCSfile$'

 *    Purpose: Used for Java applet/application communication

 *             with servlet. Based on code given in the book

 *             "Java Servlet Programming" by Hunter & crawford

 *  Copyright: 2000 Regents of the University of California and the

 *             National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis

 *    Authors: Dan Higgins modified for metacat by Chad Berkley

 *    Release: @release@

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 *     '$Date$'

 * '$Revision$'

 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify

 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by

 * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or

 * (at your option) any later version.

 *

 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,

 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of

 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the

 * GNU General Public License for more details.

 *

 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License

 * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software

 * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA

/**

 * Send a message to an HTTP server using either a GET or POST operation

 */