Automate the process of flushing dispatcher

package com.adobe.example;

import org.apache.felix.scr.annotations.Component;
import org.apache.felix.scr.annotations.Service;
import org.apache.felix.scr.annotations.Property;

import org.apache.sling.api.SlingHttpServletRequest;
import org.apache.sling.api.SlingHttpServletResponse;
import org.apache.sling.api.servlets.SlingSafeMethodsServlet;

import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

import org.apache.commons.httpclient.*;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.PostMethod;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.StringRequestEntity;

@Component(metatype=true)
@Service
public class Flushcache extends SlingSafeMethodsServlet {

 @Property(value="/bin/flushcache")
 static final String SERVLET_PATH="sling.servlet.paths";

 private Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(this.getClass());

 public void doGet(SlingHttpServletRequest request, SlingHttpServletResponse response) {
  try{ 
      //retrieve the request parameters
      String handle = request.getParameter("handle");
      String page = request.getParameter("page");

      //hard-coding connection properties is a bad practice, but is done here to simplify the example
      String server = "localhost"; 
      String uri = "/dispatcher/invalidate.cache";

      HttpClient client = new HttpClient();

      PostMethod post = new PostMethod("https://"+host+uri);
      post.setRequestHeader("CQ-Action", "Activate");
      post.setRequestHeader("CQ-Handle",handle);
   
      StringRequestEntity body = new StringRequestEntity(page,null,null);
      post.setRequestEntity(body);
      post.setRequestHeader("Content-length", String.valueOf(body.getContentLength()));
      client.executeMethod(post);
      post.releaseConnection();
      //log the results
      logger.info("result: " + post.getResponseBodyAsString());
      }
  }catch(Exception e){
      logger.error("Flushcache servlet exception: " + e.getMessage());
  }
 }
}