SocketChannel based HTTP client

In this chapter you will learn:

  1. Use SocketChannel to get Web page

Use SocketChannel to get Web page

import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.InetSocketAddress;
import java.net.SocketAddress;
import java.net.URL;
import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
import java.nio.channels.FileChannel;
import java.nio.channels.SocketChannel;
/*  j ava2s  .com*/
public class MainClass {

  public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {

    URL u = new URL("http://www.java2s.com");
    String host = u.getHost();
    int port = 80;
    String file = "/";

    SocketAddress remote = new InetSocketAddress(host, port);
    SocketChannel channel = SocketChannel.open(remote);
    FileOutputStream out = new FileOutputStream("yourfile.htm");
    FileChannel localFile = out.getChannel();

    String request = "GET " + file + " HTTP/1.1\r\n" + "User-Agent: HTTPGrab\r\n"
        + "Accept: text/*\r\n" + "Connection: close\r\n" + "Host: " + host + "\r\n" + "\r\n";

    ByteBuffer header = ByteBuffer.wrap(request.getBytes("US-ASCII"));
    channel.write(header);

    ByteBuffer buffer = ByteBuffer.allocate(8192);
    while (channel.read(buffer) != -1) {
      buffer.flip();
      localFile.write(buffer);
      buffer.clear();
    }

    localFile.close();
    channel.close();
  }
}

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What you will learn in the next chapter:

  1. Asynchronous connection of a SocketChannel
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