How to send content using Netty Http Client?

Question

I'm using Netty Http client to send requests to a http server.

I am re-using the channel and keeping the connection live to reuse it between requests.

My problem is that although the get method works perfectly, I can' manage to send content in put or post. Following is the code I am using but in my server the http request input stream is empty.

Any ideas?

HttpRequest request = new DefaultHttpRequest(HttpVersion.HTTP_1_1, HttpMethod.valueOf(method), uri.toASCIIString());
    if (payLoad != null) {
        request.setContent(ChannelBuffers.wrappedBuffer(payLoad));
    }

Note: payload is a bytearray.

Thanks,

Yair