I needed a way to issue an HTTPRequest in Java, and I don’t care about the return value. I wasn’t able to find a simple example so I thought I’d post my that part of my solution. I don’t know that it’s the best way, but it works.

import java.net.URL;

public class Request {
  public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
      if(args.length == 0) {
          System.out.println("URL required.");
          return;
      }
      URL url = new URL(args[0]);
      url.openStream().close();
  }
}

And to use it you just pass in the url via the command line

java Request http://joezack.com