Apache的HttpClient可以被用于从客户端发送HTTP请求到服务器端,下面给出一个用HttpClient执行GET和POST请求的操作方法

添加maven依赖

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
            <artifactId>httpclient</artifactId>
            <version>4.5.2</version>
        </dependency>

请求步骤

• 使用帮助类HttpClients创建CloseableHttpClient对象.
• 基于要发送的HTTP请求类型创建HttpGet或者HttpPost实例.
• 使用addHeader方法添加请求头部,诸如User-Agent, Accept-Encoding等参数.
• 可调用HttpGet、HttpPost共同的setParams(HetpParams params)方法来添加请求参数；对于HttpPost对象而言，也可调用setEntity(HttpEntity entity)方法来设置请求参数。
• 通过执行此HttpGet或者HttpPost请求获取CloseableHttpResponse实例
• 从此CloseableHttpResponse实例中获取状态码,错误信息,以及响应页面等等.
• 释放连接。无论执行方法是否成功，都必须释放连接

示例如下

public static String httpPost(String host, int port, byte[] buf)
    {

        CloseableHttpClient httpClient = HttpClients.createDefault();
        CloseableHttpResponse httpResponse = null;
        BufferedReader reader = null;
        StringBuffer response = new StringBuffer();
        try {

            String url = "http://" + host + ":" + port;
            HttpPost httpPost = new HttpPost(url);
            RequestConfig requestConfig = RequestConfig.custom().setSocketTimeout(6000).setConnectTimeout(6000).build();//设置请求和传输超时时间
            httpPost.setConfig(requestConfig);
            httpPost.addHeader("User-Agent", "Mozilla/5.0");

            ByteArrayEntity entity = new ByteArrayEntity(buf);
            httpPost.setEntity(entity);

            httpResponse = httpClient.execute(httpPost);

            reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
                    httpResponse.getEntity().getContent()));

            String inputLine;

            while ((inputLine = reader.readLine()) != null) {
                response.append(inputLine);
            }

        }catch (Exception var){
            var.printStackTrace();
        }finally {
            if(reader != null){
                reader.close();
            }
            if(httpResponse != null){
                httpResponse.close();
            }
            httpClient.close();
        }
        return response.toString();

    }

public void httpGet() {  
        CloseableHttpClient httpclient = HttpClients.createDefault();  
        try {  
            // 创建httpget.    
            HttpGet httpget = new HttpGet("http://www.baidu.com/");  
            System.out.println("executing request " + httpget.getURI());  
            // 执行get请求.    
            CloseableHttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httpget);  
            try {  
                // 获取响应实体    
                HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();  
                // 打印响应状态    
                System.out.println(response.getStatusLine());  
                if (entity != null) {  
                    // 打印响应内容长度    
                    System.out.println("Response content length: " + entity.getContentLength());  
                    // 打印响应内容    
                    System.out.println("Response content: " + EntityUtils.toString(entity));  
                }  
            } finally {  
                response.close();  
            }  
        } catch (ClientProtocolException e) {  
            e.printStackTrace();  
        } catch (ParseException e) {  
            e.printStackTrace();  
        } catch (IOException e) {  
            e.printStackTrace();  
        } finally {  
            // 关闭连接,释放资源    
            try {  
                httpclient.close();  
            } catch (IOException e) {  
                e.printStackTrace();  
            }  
        }  
    }