Android DownloadManager with POST method?

Question

I started to work with android.app.DownloadManager and faced a problem.
By default, DM sending HTTP GET request to download file:

GET http://www.example.com/getfile HTTP/1.1
Cookie: id=sdfsdf;Max-Age=10800000;Path=/
Host: ___
Connection: Keep-Alive
User-Agent: AndroidDownloadManager Paros/3.2.13
Content-length: 0

But I need to send some data in request(e.g. json string)
Are there any ways to send HTTP POST request in DownloadManager

Juratory

if your data is not too important, you can add your data in the get request (while encoding special chars) like this : example.com/getfile?id=xxx&data=%e9l%e9ment%20encod%e9 – Convexity

Thanks, I knew that, but the requirement is to send data in the body of request. – Juratory

Answer 1

While waiting for another more accurate answer :

I don't think you can add data to this request since, as you said it, it's a GET request and not POST.

Maybe this thread can give you a hint on another way to achieve what you want if the Download-Manager is not absolutely required : How do download a file with login using HttpURLConnection

Convexity

I'am actually dropped this method, and made downloading with AsyncTask. But it's still very wierd, that developers didn't made that simple option to the DM, which, I guess, very commonly used. – Juratory