No. Just like you can’t send a manual POST from the browser without dev tools.
The reason POST/PUT/DELETE/etc. are not idompotent, so having a way to tell the browser to send potentially dangerous requests is a bad thing. So everything you put into the address field is a GET request, with potentially an OPTIONS sprinkled in. GET requests are not supposed to change data, so this is generally safe.
Even if the request were to respond with a 301 or 302 that you try to capture with URLConnection, that wouldn’t work since URLConnection follows redirects.