Can Ant load a URL?
ant
Solution
You can use `get` task to call http url. Here is more info https://ant.apache.org/manual/Tasks/get.html.
For example `<get src="http://127.0.0.1:${product.listenport}/QUIT" dest="${temp.dir}/quit.res"/>`
Problem
I have an Ant build script which currently launches a server and then waits until a URL can be resolved before it carries out some Selenium tests for me. That task looks like this; ``` <target name="test.selenium" depends="compile.constants, launch.server" description="Run the Selenium tests"> <echodesc/> <waitfor maxwait="1" maxwaitunit="minute" checkevery="2" checkeveryunit="second"> <http url="http://127.0.0.1:${product.listenport}/"/> </waitfor> <exec executable="${deps.python}" spawn="false" failonerror="true" dir="src"> <arg line="manage.py test --selenium-only" /> </exec> </target> ``` After that has been successful I want to call a URL which will shutdown the server but I'm unsure of how to do this with Ant. Is it possible to get Ant to call `127.0.0.1:${product.listenport}/QUIT`? I was previously achieving this with a `taskkill` command to the running process but this has started to cause Windows errors and that URL closes the server cleanly. The best solution I can find is this macro to open a URL in the browser but this still causes me problems because I then have an open browser at the end of my tests; http://chris.m0nk3y.net/blog/post/opening-a-url-in-the-default-browser-with-ant my solution Ultimately I used the following ant target; ``` <target name="shutdown.server" depends="init.properties" description="Shutdown the server"> <get src="http://127.0.0.1:${product.listenport}/QUIT" dest="NUL"/> </target> ``` 'NUL' enabled me to use get without dealing with a new file being created so this was perfect for the job \o/