hitting a URL using java [duplicate]

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using java, how do i hit any url?

for instance, opening of http://www.xyz.com/node1 in a browser will tell xyz.com that node1 is hit. so in this java program (which sends sms text say 'node1' in example above embedded in the url itself to a sms gateway server)

how do i achieve it without opening any browser or using servlet.

• Sam Becker: Exact dupe: stackoverflow.com/questions/1359689/…
• BalusC: Tutorial: [How to use java.net.URLConnection to fire and handle HTTP requests? ](stackoverflow.com/questions/2793150/…)
• Mark Peters: @Sam152: That's a completely different question, dealing with sending an HTTP request. That's different than just loading a URL.

Answer 1

You can use an HttpURLConnection.

But using it directly is overkill if you just want to load the URL in question. This guide shows you how to open a URL.

Basically it boils down to:

URL url = new URL("http://www.xyz.com/node1");
URLConnection conn = url.openConnection();
conn.connect();
//...

Answer 2

The simplest way is to use URL http://download.oracle.com/javase/1.4.2/docs/api/java/net/URL.html. For more advanced/flexible URL fetching you could use HttpClient http://hc.apache.org/httpclient-3.x/