HttpClient 4 Tutorial

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This is a comprehensive guide to using Apache HttpClient 4 – from starting out to advanced configuration and best practices.

1. HttpClient Basics

Learn the basics of sending a Request, receiving and interpreting the Response and configure the Client for basic usage.

• Get the Status Code of a Request

• Configure Timeout

• Cancel/Abort a Request

• Do Not Follow Redirects

• Set Custom Header

• HttpClient 4 Cookbook

• Posting with HttpClient

2. Advanced Usage

Go into more advanced usecases of configuring the client with SSL, Custom Cookies, different types of Requests, etc.

• Configure SSL

• Unshorten URLs with HttpClient

• Send a Custom Cookie

• Follow Redirects for POST Requests

• HttpClient Basic Authentication

• Multipart Upload

• HttpAsyncClient Tutorial

The implementation of all these examples and code snippets can be found in my github project – this is an Eclipse based project, so it should be easy to import and run as it is.

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