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HttpUrlConnection Post with header info but no body

I am developing an Android app that uses an API I developed.
I am doing this connection using HttpUrlConnection and so far the login works fine. The problem arises with the logout. It´s not doing anything. When I do the logout request with Postman then it works fine, but with HttpUrlConnection it does not.
The logout works like this:
Do a POST request to http://ipaddress:12345/api/LogOut
and in the header include the token of the logged user. Then the server should go to the database and delete the token for that user:
This is how I´m trying to do the request:
URL url = new URL(getString(R.string.url) + "LogOut");
HttpURLConnection con = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
con.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/json");
con.setRequestProperty("Token", TokenSingleton.getToken());
con.setReadTimeout(10000);
con.setConnectTimeout(15000);
con.setRequestMethod("POST");
con.setDoInput(true);
con.setDoOutput(true);
con.setUseCaches(false);
con.connect();
con.getOutputStream().flush();
con.getOutputStream().close();
con.disconnect();

Nothing happens until you do some input. At least call getResponseCode() to see whether you got a 200 or not. Preferably you should consume the input stream, if 200 <= response code <= 299, otherwise the error stream.
NB setDoOutput(true) sets the request method to POST. You don't need to do that yourself. And setDoInput(true) is the default. And close() implies flush().

How can I authorize Google Scope for a DELETE HTTP request on Java?

I'm trying to DELETE some emails from my organization. I have this code.
URL url = new URL("https://www.googleapis.com/admin/directory/v1/users/userKey");
HttpURLConnection httpCon = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
httpCon.setDoOutput(true);
httpCon.setRequestProperty(
"Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" );
httpCon.setRequestMethod("DELETE");
httpCon.connect();
But I know that its missing the authorization that ask Google. Acording to this page: https://developers.google.com/admin-sdk/directory/v1/reference/users/delete
I don't know how to make that happen,
I'm new on this, can you help me please?

HttpUrlConnection PATCH request using Java

I am trying to do a http PATCH request but I always get the 404 error, so maybe the settings of my connection are not correct:
URL url = new URL("MyPath");
HttpURLConnection conn = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
conn.setDoOutput(true);
conn.setRequestProperty("X-HTTP-Method-Override", "PATCH");
conn.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/json");
conn.setRequestProperty("Accept", "application/json");
conn.setRequestMethod("POST");
JsonObject jo = createMyJson();
OutputStreamWriter out = new OutputStreamWriter(conn.getOutputStream());
out.write(jo.toString());
out.close();
System.out.println(conn.getResponseCode());
System.out.println(conn.getResponseMessage());
I get the 404 error, Not found. When doing the same request using Postman, this is working..
Thank you for your help.

Not all servers support X-HTTP-Method-Override. In that case your last resort is (if you are not using a decent HTTP client) to hack the URLConnection object.
I posted a complete solution here on SO, check it out.

HTTP 403 while executing a PUT request

I am creating a django rest api, and I'm trying to send JSON data via PUT request from an Android device, using HttpUrlConnection.
URL url = new URL(myurl);
conn = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
conn.setReadTimeout(10000 /* milliseconds */);
conn.setConnectTimeout(15000 /* milliseconds */);
conn.setRequestMethod("PUT");
conn.setDoInput(true);
conn.setDoOutput(true);
conn.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/json; charset=UTF-8");
conn.setRequestProperty("Accept", "application/json");
Log.v("Apiput", MainActivity.cookieManager.getCookieStore().getCookies().get(0).toString());
conn.connect();
if(conn.getResponseCode() != 200) {
return "" + conn.getResponseCode();
}
OutputStreamWriter osw = new OutputStreamWriter(conn.getOutputStream());
osw.write(put);
osw.flush();
osw.close();`
I know I have to send a csrf token, but I think that I'm sending it already.
By examining the META in my request I can see the csrf token both in headers and cookies:
'HTTP_COOKIE': 'csrftoken=3jLNzfLIu1P5dBH4WWwggHMH7oDQC7Rx;'
And in my android device i have a CookieManager that says that the csrf cookie has the same value.
V/Apiput﹕ csrftoken=3jLNzfLIu1P5dBH4WWwggHMH7oDQC7Rx
I am getting a 403 (Forbidden) Http error besides the user is authenticated (I can make GET Requests)
[26/Sep/2015 00:16:04]"PUT /api/works/34/ HTTP/1.1" 403 58
With curl I am able to send the request without any problem, with the same user credentials.
I wonder if anyone can tell me what am I doing wrong.
Thanks.

You don't have to set the cookie if you're doing a JSON call to Django REST framework.
It would definitively help if you can provide the permissions associated to the view.

How do I add cookies in a post request in Java?

I was trying to get a certain page through java, but with this page I didn't succeed.
Now in my browser it does work, but when I disable Cookies in the settings, it doesn't anymore.
So I probably need to add cookies to my post request in java.
So I went searching the interwebs, but unfortunately I couldn't really find anything useful. mostly it was vague, scattered or irrelevant.
So now my question :
Could anyone show me how to do it (mentioned above^^), or point me to a clear site?

Here's a simple example of setting a cookie in a POST request with URLConnection:
URL url = new URL("http://example.com/");
String postData = "foo bar baz";
URLConnection con = url.openConnection();
con.setDoOutput(true);
con.setRequestProperty("Cookie", "name=value");
con.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "text/plain; charset=utf-8");
con.connect();
OutputStreamWriter out = new OutputStreamWriter(con.getOutputStream(), "UTF-8");
out.write(postData);
out.close();
You probably need to pass a cookie from a previous request, see this answer for an example. Also consider using Apache HttpClient to make things easier.

URL url = new URL("http://hostname:80");
URLConnection conn = url.openConnection();
conn.setRequestProperty("Cookie", "name1=value1; name2=value2");
conn.connect();