Java tutorial
/* * To change this license header, choose License Headers in Project Properties. * To change this template file, choose Tools | Templates * and open the template in the editor. */ package be.ohatv.searchproviders; import com.google.common.base.Strings; import java.io.BufferedReader; import java.io.DataOutputStream; import java.io.InputStreamReader; import java.net.HttpURLConnection; import java.net.URL; import javax.net.ssl.HttpsURLConnection; /** * * @author glenn */ public class Webclient { private static final String USER_AGENT = "Mozilla/5.0"; public static String sendGet(String url) throws Exception { URL obj = new URL(url); HttpURLConnection con = (HttpURLConnection) obj.openConnection(); // optional default is GET con.setRequestMethod("GET"); //add request header con.setRequestProperty("User-Agent", USER_AGENT); int responseCode = con.getResponseCode(); if (responseCode == 200) { BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(con.getInputStream())); String inputLine; StringBuffer response = new StringBuffer(); while ((inputLine = in.readLine()) != null) { response.append(inputLine); } in.close(); //print result String result = response.toString(); if (Strings.isNullOrEmpty(url) == false) { return result; } } return null; } // HTTP POST request public static boolean sendPost(String url, String data) throws Exception { URL obj = new URL(url); HttpURLConnection con = (HttpURLConnection) obj.openConnection(); //add reuqest header con.setRequestMethod("POST"); con.setRequestProperty("User-Agent", USER_AGENT); con.setRequestProperty("Accept-Language", "en-US,en;q=0.5"); con.setDoOutput(true); DataOutputStream wr = new DataOutputStream(con.getOutputStream()); wr.writeBytes(data); wr.flush(); wr.close(); int responseCode = con.getResponseCode(); BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(con.getInputStream())); String inputLine; StringBuffer response = new StringBuffer(); while ((inputLine = in.readLine()) != null) { response.append(inputLine); } in.close(); if (responseCode == 200) { return true; } return false; } }