My WFS POST does not work.

Q: When I send a a WFS request to GeoServer through my Java application, I just get errors.

There are a couple errors you can get, but in general the problem is URL encoding.
What you need to make sure is that the content-type is application/xml.

Example:

url = new URL("http://localhost:8080/geoserver/wfs");
         conn = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
         conn.setRequestMethod("POST");
         conn.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/xml");
         conn.setUseCaches(false);
         conn.setDoInput(true);
         conn.setDoOutput(true);

Where conn is your connection.

A user suggested the following code snippit:

try {
    HttpClient client = new HttpClient();
    GetMethod method = new GetMethod( url );
    method.setFollowRedirects( true );

    // Execute the GET method
    int statusCode = client.executeMethod( method );
    if( statusCode != -1 ) {
      String contents = method.getResponseBodyAsString();
      method.releaseConnection();
      System.out.println( contents );
    }
   }
   catch( Exception e ) {
    e.printStackTrace();
   }

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