How do you do an SSL POST from a Java Agent?

From Karl Merckel on the Notes forums:

This solution uses HttpClient and JSSE which you can download from these sources:

HttpClient:
http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/httpclient/index.html

Dependancies:
http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/httpclient/dependencies.html

JSSE1.3
http://java.sun.com/products/jsse/index-103.html

After downloading and unzipping the packages retrieve the following JAR files and put them in jvm\lib\ext

commons-httpclient-3.0.jar
commons-logging.jar
commons-codec-1.3.jar
junit.jar

jcert.jar
jnet.jar
jsse.jar

One last step and I am not sure if this is neccassary:

Modify the java.security document (in /jvm/lib/security) and add a security provider : com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.Provider.
Example :
security.provider.1=sun.security.provider.Sun
security.provider.2=com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.Provider

Modify the java.policy document (in jvm/lib/security) and add a permission :
permission java.util.PropertyPermission "java.protocol.handler.pkgs", "write";

This solution work in ND6+ because it needs JDK 1.3+.

Here is some sample code:

import lotus.domino.*;
import java.io.IOException;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.PostMethod;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpClient;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.GetMethod;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.*;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.InputStreamRequestEntity;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;

public class JavaAgent extends AgentBase {

  public void NotesMain() {

    try {
      Session session = getSession();
      AgentContext agentContext = session.getAgentContext();

      HttpClient httpclient = new HttpClient();
      PostMethod post = new PostMethod("https://yourdomain.com?action=login&username=whatever");

      try {
        int result = httpclient.executeMethod(post);
        // Display status code
        System.out.println("Response status code: " + result);
        // Display response
        System.out.println("Response body: ");
        System.out.println(post.getResponseBodyAsString());
      } finally {
        // Release current connection to the connection pool once you are done
        post.releaseConnection();
      }
    } catch(Exception e) {
      e.printStackTrace();
    }
  }
}

Applies to Notes Versions: 6, 6.5, 7