Example of sending a GET POST request to a specified URL in Java network programming

  • 2020-04-01 02:33:11
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import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.URL;
import java.net.URLConnection;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;

public class HttpRequest {
    
    public static String sendGet(String url, String param) {
        String result = "";
        BufferedReader in = null;
        try {
            String urlNameString = url + "?" + param;
            URL realUrl = new URL(urlNameString);
            //Open the connection between and URL
            URLConnection connection = realUrl.openConnection();
            //Sets the generic request properties
            connection.setRequestProperty("accept", "*/*");
            connection.setRequestProperty("connection", "Keep-Alive");
            connection.setRequestProperty("user-agent",
                    "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1;SV1)");
            //Establish the actual connection
            connection.connect();
            //Gets all the response header fields
            /*
             * Map<String, List<String>> map = connection.getHeaderFields(); //
             *  Traverses all response header fields  for (String key : map.keySet()) {
             * System.out.println(key + "--->" + map.get(key)); }
             */
            //Define a BufferedReader input stream to read the response to the URL
            in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
                    connection.getInputStream()));
            String line;
            while ((line = in.readLine()) != null) {
                result += line;
            }
        } catch (Exception e) {
            System.out.println(" send GET Request exception! " + e);
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        //Use a finally block to close the input stream
        finally {
            try {
                if (in != null) {
                    in.close();
                }
            } catch (Exception e2) {
                e2.printStackTrace();
            }
        }
        return result;
    }

    
    public static String sendPost(String url, String param) {
        PrintWriter out = null;
        BufferedReader in = null;
        String result = "";
        try {
            URL realUrl = new URL(url);
            //Open the connection between and URL
            URLConnection conn = realUrl.openConnection();
            //Sets the generic request properties
            conn.setRequestProperty("accept", "*/*");
            conn.setRequestProperty("connection", "Keep-Alive");
            conn.setRequestProperty("user-agent",
                    "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1;SV1)");
            //The following two lines must be set to send the POST request
            conn.setDoOutput(true);
            conn.setDoInput(true);
            //Gets the output stream corresponding to the URLConnection object
            out = new PrintWriter(conn.getOutputStream());
            //Send request parameters
            out.print(param);
            //Flush the buffer of the output stream
            out.flush();
            //Define a BufferedReader input stream to read the response to the URL
            in = new BufferedReader(
                    new InputStreamReader(conn.getInputStream()));
            String line;
            while ((line = in.readLine()) != null) {
                result += line;
            }
        } catch (Exception e) {
            System.out.println(" send  POST  Request exception! " + e);
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        //Use a finally block to close the output stream, the input stream
        finally {
            try {
                if (out != null) {
                    out.close();
                }
                if (in != null) {
                    in.close();
                }
            } catch (IOException ex) {
                ex.printStackTrace();
            }
        }
        return result;
    }
}

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