Apache Http Get Example

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  • Maven dependencies. We use maven to manage our dependencies and are using Apache HttpClient version 4.5. Add the following dependency to your project in order to make HTTP Get request method.
  • HttpClient supports out of the box all HTTP methods defined in the HTTP/1.1 specification: GET, HEAD, POST, PUT, DELETE, TRACE, and OPTIONS.There is a specific class for each method type.

The grep command tells the machine to only display entries with the GET request. You can substitute other Apache commands as well. For example, if you’re looking to monitor access to.jpg images, you could substitute.jpg for GET. As before, use the actual path to your server’s log file.

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This example show you how to get HTTP response body as a string when using the Apache HttpComponents library. To get the response body as a string we can use the EntityUtils.toString() method. This method read the content of an HttpEntity object content and return it as a string. The content will be converted using the character set from the entity object.

Apache Http Get Example

Let’s see the code snippet below:

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We have learned about building RESTful webservices already. Now learn to build a JAX-RS REST client for consuming the webservices using HttpClient RESTful Client.

Apache Http Get Examples

I will be reusing the code written for jaxrs xml example.

The HTTP GET and POST REST APIs which I will be accessing are as defined.

To build a RESTful client using apache httpclient, follow below instruction.

1. Apache HttpClient maven dependency

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