Testing the Post request

Hi,
Below is a bit of code that I intend to use to perform a http "Post"
request to an another application - which is still under development.
I would like to verify the implemention of this method ie it will
perform a http POST request with the xml content to the specified URL.
I want to avoid mocking the HttpClient class. I would like to
effectively see this method perform the a actions and and some stub
application receive the request ( get I presume). Any help, with
example code pls, would be very much appreciated.

Thank You.

Pete

code =>
    public void sendResponse() {

        String url = "URL";

        String xmldata = "xml data";

        PostMethod post = new PostMethod(url);

        final RequestEntity entity = new StringRequestEntity(xmldata);
        post.setRequestEntity(entity);

        // Specify content type and encoding
        post.setRequestHeader("Content-type", "text/xml;
charset=ISO-8859-1");

        // Get HTTP client
        HttpClient httpclient = new HttpClient();

        // Execute request
        try {

            int result = httpclient.executeMethod(post);

        } catch (Exception e) {
            System.out.print("exception encountered " + e.toString());
        } finally {
            post.releaseConnection();
        }
    }