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

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Published on 2010-05-08T06:16:11Z Indexed on 2010/05/08 6:18 UTC
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This subject is pretty often asked here and the Sun tutorial is too concise about the subject. So I thought, let's post a CW question and answer about this so that it can if necessary be referenced in other topics.

Others are of course free to add more hints and best practices here.

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