GetMethodExample.java Source code

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import org.apache.commons.httpclient.URI;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpClient;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpStatus;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpException;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.GetMethod;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.HostConfiguration;

import org.apache.commons.httpclient.protocol.Protocol;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;

public class GetMethodExample {

    public static void main(String args[]) {

        HttpClient client = new HttpClient();
        client.getParams().setParameter("http.useragent", "Test Client");
        client.getParams().setParameter("http.connection.timeout", new Integer(5000));

        GetMethod method = new GetMethod();
        FileOutputStream fos = null;

        try {

            method.setURI(new URI("http://www.google.com", true));
            int returnCode = client.executeMethod(method);

            if (returnCode != HttpStatus.SC_OK) {
                System.err.println("Unable to fetch default page, status code: " + returnCode);
            }

            System.err.println(method.getResponseBodyAsString());

            method.setURI(new URI("http://www.google.com/images/logo.gif", true));
            returnCode = client.executeMethod(method);

            if (returnCode != HttpStatus.SC_OK) {
                System.err.println("Unable to fetch image, status code: " + returnCode);
            }

            byte[] imageData = method.getResponseBody();
            fos = new FileOutputStream(new File("google.gif"));
            fos.write(imageData);

            HostConfiguration hostConfig = new HostConfiguration();
            hostConfig.setHost("www.yahoo.com", null, 80, Protocol.getProtocol("http"));

            method.setURI(new URI("/", true));

            client.executeMethod(hostConfig, method);

            System.err.println(method.getResponseBodyAsString());

        } catch (HttpException he) {
            System.err.println(he);
        } catch (IOException ie) {
            System.err.println(ie);
        } finally {
            method.releaseConnection();
            if (fos != null)
                try {
                    fos.close();
                } catch (Exception fe) {
                }
        }

    }
}