Java has client side support for posting data to an URL...but then at
server side you better be doing it yourself. I guess notion was you
always
need a bulky web server handling this for you, though that is not
necessarily true.
Actually, many, many people have done this. I have worked with
organizations where this has been done multiple times for multiple
projects, and have myself written small, embedded HTTP servers in Perl,
similar. It might be that you could take the source for something like
Scott Seely in his book "Soap" points to
http://www-ccs.cs.mass.edu/~shri/iPic.html where an 8 bit pic computer
about the size of a quarter uses a 256 byte tcpip stack to support a
full Http srrver. It may still be there. built in '99 it probably still
holds the record.
