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How can I send POST parameters with HttpURLConnection POST in java?

I am not familiar with https requests so please take it easy on me.
I want to make a post call and retrieve a token for a url. The url is something like:
/auth/token?param1=value1&param2=value2&param3=value3&param4={{value4}}&param5={{value5}}
I make the post
HttpURLConnection conn = (HttpURLConnection) authentication.openConnection();
conn.setDoOutput(true);
conn.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
conn.setRequestMethod("POST");
but in order to get the response I have to send the parameters.
I've tried to write the url params as string to the connection outputstream but it doesnt work.
Any help is appreciated.

PORT Change in error case: HttpURLConnection

I am consuming API using HttpURLConnection in my android application and its running fine but if I get response code except then 200 ok (like 404, 500) my port is changing when I hit next request after error response code:
my code for android request is below and wireshark log as well:
try {
url = new URL(path_url + apiMsg); //in the real code, there is an ip and a port
conn = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
conn.setDoInput(true);
conn.setDoOutput(true);
conn.setConnectTimeout(5000);
conn.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/json; charset=UTF-8");
conn.setRequestMethod("POST");
conn.setRequestProperty("Accept","*/*");
}
Please refer wireshark log:
https://files.fm/u/w7umrwwk
So how to avoid PORT change in error scenario as well like in success 200 case, so that we continue to run on the same PORT.

read about sun.net.http.errorstream.enableBuffering in HttpURLConnection source code.
By default when response code is >= 400 then the connection is closed.
It is a clean though not so efficient way of handling error streams.
Instead of setting obscure system properties to handle this, it would be better to move to a proper http client like apache.

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().

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.

How to change the default HTTP OPTIONS parameters in Java

My java snippet looks like:
...
String type = "text/plain;charset=UTF-8";
URL url = new URL("http://xxx/");
HttpURLConnection conn = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
conn.setDoOutput(true);
conn.setRequestMethod("OPTIONS");
conn.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", type);
...
When I sniff what this sends it sends a
OPTIONS / HTTP/1.1
which appears to be the default.
However, I actually want to send
OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0
How would I do this?

You can't do that with "plain" java.net.URLConnection. Consider replacing by Apache Commons HttpClient which is less bloated and more configureable. You can force HTTP 1.0 mode by setting http.protocol.version to HttpVersion.HTTP_1_0 in HttpClient#getParams(). You can find an example in this document.

I agree with the answer the following is the code using HTTPClient
HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();
client.getParams().setParameter(CoreProtocolPNames.PROTOCOL_VERSION, HttpVersion.HTTP_1_0);
Hope it helps some one..