cURL equivalent in JAVA

authentication, curl, java, php

Solution

Exception handling omitted:

HttpURLConnection con = (HttpURLConnection) new URL("https://www.example.com").openConnection();
con.setRequestMethod("POST");
con.getOutputStream().write("LOGIN".getBytes("UTF-8"));
con.getInputStream();

Problem

I am tasked with writing an authentication component for an open source `JAVA` app. We have an in-house authentication widget that uses `https`. I have some example `php` code that accesses the `widget` which uses `cURL` to handle the transfer. My question is whether or not there is a port of `cURL` to `JAVA`, or better yet, what base package will get me close enough to handle the task? Update: This is in a nutshell, the code I would like to replicate in JAVA: ``` $cp = curl_init(); $my_url = "https://" . AUTH_SERVER . "/auth/authenticate.asp?pt1=$uname&pt2=$pass&pt4=full"; curl_setopt($cp, CURLOPT_URL, $my_url); curl_setopt($cp, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); $result = curl_exec($cp); curl_close($cp); ``` Heath, I think you're on the right track, I think I'm going to end up using HttpsURLConnection and then picking out what I need from the response.

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