HTTPClient 4.0 Usage

1. Download HttpCore 4.0.1 (GA) and HttpClient 4.0-beta2 from

    http://hc.apache.org/downloads.cgi

 

    HttpCore 4.0.1 (GA) contain follow 2 jar files

        httpcore-4.0.1.jar

        httpcore-nio-4.0.1.jar

 

    HttpClient 4.0-beta2 contain follow 2 jar files

        httpclient-4.0-beta2.jar

        httpmime-4.0-beta2.jar

 

2. Download apache-commons-logging

 

3. Within HttpClient 4.0-beta2 package there are some samples, for example

    org.apache.http.examples.client.ClientWithResponseHandler

 

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package org.apache.http.examples.client;

import org.apache.http.client.ResponseHandler;
import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.BasicResponseHandler;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient;

/**
 * This example demonstrates the use of the {@link ResponseHandler} to simplify
 * the process of processing the HTTP response and releasing associated resources.
 */
public class ClientWithResponseHandler {

    public final static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
       
        HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();

        HttpGet httpget = new HttpGet("http://localhost:8080/FAQ/");

        System.out.println("executing request " + httpget.getURI());

        // Create a response handler
        ResponseHandler<String> responseHandler = new BasicResponseHandler();
        String responseBody = httpclient.execute(httpget, responseHandler);
        System.out.println(responseBody);
       
        System.out.println("----------------------------------------");
    }
   
}