BE THE CODER > Tools and Libs > Commons Http Client

Commons Http Client is a HTTP agent implementation in java supporting client-side authentication, HTTP state management and HTTP connection management. This requires the libraries httpclient-4.1.2.jar, httpcore-4.1.2.jar, httpmime-4.1.2.jar, httpclient-cache-4.1.2.jar, commons-codec.jar and commons-logging-1.1.1.jar to be in classpath. The following example shows how to make Http Get request through Http Client.

File Name :	com/bethecoder/tutorials/commons_httpclient/SimpleGetRequestTest2.java
Author :	Sudhakar KV
Email :	[email protected]


package com.bethecoder.tutorials.commons_httpclient;



import java.io.IOException;



import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;

import org.apache.http.HttpHost;

import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;

import org.apache.http.client.ClientProtocolException;

import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;

import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;

import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient;

import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;



public class SimpleGetRequestTest2 {



  /**

   * @param args

   */

  public static void main(String[] args) {

    HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();

    try {

      

      HttpHost targetHost = new HttpHost("finance.google.com", 80, "http");

            HttpGet getRequest = new HttpGet("/finance/info?client=ig&q=NASDAQ:GOOG");

            System.out.println("Requesting : " + targetHost);



            HttpResponse rsp = httpclient.execute(targetHost, getRequest);

            HttpEntity entity = rsp.getEntity();



            System.out.println("\n\nResponse : ");

            if (entity != null) {

                System.out.println(EntityUtils.toString(entity));

            }

      

    } catch (ClientProtocolException e) {

      e.printStackTrace();

    } catch (IOException e) {

      e.printStackTrace();

    } finally {

       httpclient.getConnectionManager().shutdown();

    }

  }



}

Simple HTTP GET Request2