I receive SocketException: Connection reset on HTTP POST client

pengoz

I'm still new to java and would love the help of the community. I'm trying to build a HTTP post client, I'm not sure what am I doing wrong because I receive java.net.SocketException: Connection reset.Here is my class,please help.

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;

import org.apache.commons.httpclient.*;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.*;


public class WebServicePost{

public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception{


String request = "http://api.geonames.org/findNearByWeatherXML?";


HttpClient client = new HttpClient();
PostMethod method = new PostMethod(request);

method.setRequestHeader("Content-type","text/xml; charset=UTF-8");
method.addParameter("lat","43");
method.addParameter("lng","-2");
method.addParameter("username","demo");


// Send POST request
int statusCode = client.executeMethod(method);

if(statusCode != HttpStatus.SC_OK){
System.err.println("Method failed: " + method.getStatusLine());
}
InputStream rstream = null;

//Get the response body
rstream = method.getResponseBodyAsStream();

// Process the response from a Web Services
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(rstream));
String line ;
while((line = br.readLine()) != null){
System.out.println(line);
}
br.close();
}
}