conn = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();

               conn.setDoOutput(true);

            conn.setRequestMethod("POST");

           conn.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/xml");

             conn.setRequestProperty("Authorization", "Basic " + encoded);

            out = conn.getOutputStream();

           out.write(res.getBytes("UTF-8"));

           out.close();

System.out.println(conn.getResponseMessage());