Jget, a simple CLI web client for testing

“Knock, knock.”
“Who’s there?”
very long pause….
“Java.”

I made this to test the way Java makes web requests. It is both simple and inefficient at being a web client.

/*  Compile
 *  javac Jget.java
 *
 *  Testing
 *  java Jget http://google.com
 */

import java.io.*; 
import java.net.*;  

public class Jget {  
 public static String getHTML(String urlToRead) throws Exception { 
  StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder(); 
  URL url = new URL(urlToRead); 
  HttpURLConnection conn = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection(); 
  conn.setRequestMethod("GET"); 
  BufferedReader rd = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(conn.getInputStream())); 
  String line; 
  while ((line = rd.readLine()) != null) { 
   result.append(line); 
  } 
  rd.close(); 
  return result.toString(); 
 }  

 public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { 
  System.out.println(getHTML(args[0])); 
 } 
}