How to use java.net.URLConnection to fire and handle HTTP requests

First a disclaimer beforehand: the posted code snippets are all basic examples. You’ll need to handle trivial IOExceptions and RuntimeExceptions like NullPointerException, ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException and consorts yourself. In case you’re developing for Android instead of Java, note also that since introduction of API level 28, cleartext HTTP requests are disabled by default. You are encouraged to use HttpsURLConnection, but if it is really … Read more

How to define the basic HTTP authentication using cURL correctly?

From the documentation page: -u, –user <user:password> Specify the user name and password to use for server authentication. Overrides -n, –netrc and –netrc-optional. If you simply specify the user name, curl will prompt for a password. The user name and passwords are split up on the first colon, which makes it impossible to use a … Read more

How to download a file over HTTP?

Use urllib.request.urlopen(): This is the most basic way to use the library, minus any error handling. You can also do more complex stuff such as changing headers. On Python 2, the method is in urllib2:

How to define the basic HTTP authentication using cURL correctly?

From the documentation page: -u, –user <user:password> Specify the user name and password to use for server authentication. Overrides -n, –netrc and –netrc-optional. If you simply specify the user name, curl will prompt for a password. The user name and passwords are split up on the first colon, which makes it impossible to use a … Read more

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