This package provides a complete http client library. It currently implements most of the relevant parts of the HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1 protocols, including the request methods HEAD, GET, POST and PUT, and automatic handling of authorization, redirection requests, and cookies. Furthermore the included Codecs class contains coders and decoders for the base64, quoted-printable, URL-encoding, chunked and the multipart/form-data encodings. The whole thing is free, and licenced under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) (note that this is not the same as the GPL).
Following is the documentation for the HTTPClient Version 0.3-3. If you have any problems, bugs, suggestions, comments, etc. see the info on debugging and reporting problems.
Documentation and Information:
Getting started
Advanced Info
API Documentation
Bug fixes, Changes, and Upgrading from Version 0.3-2
A comparison of java.net.URLConnection and HTTPClient
Https (http over SSL) Support
Common Exceptions and their Causes
Notes on compiling HTTPClient classes
Emulating Form Submissions
Frequently Asked Questions
Bugs fixed in V0.3-2 (from V0.3-1)
Bugs fixed in V0.3-1 (from V0.3)
Bugs fixed, Changes, and Upgrading to V0.3 (from V0.2-3)
Bugs fixed in V0.2-3 (from V0.2-2)
Bugs fixed in V0.2-2 (from V0.2-1)
Bugs fixed in V0.2-1 (from V0.2)