下面是一个完整的Java 7程序:

class GETHTTPResource {
  public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
    try (java.util.Scanner s = new java.util.Scanner(new java.net.URL("http://example.com/").openStream())) {
      System.out.println(s.useDelimiter("\\A").next());
    }
  }
}

新的try-with-resources将自动关闭Scanner，而Scanner将自动关闭InputStream。

下面是一个完整的Java 7程序:

class GETHTTPResource {
  public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
    try (java.util.Scanner s = new java.util.Scanner(new java.net.URL("http://example.com/").openStream())) {
      System.out.println(s.useDelimiter("\\A").next());
    }
  }
}

新的try-with-resources将自动关闭Scanner，而Scanner将自动关闭InputStream。

Apache HttpComponents。这两个模块的例子——HttpCore和HttpClient会让你马上开始。

并不是说HttpUrlConnection是一个糟糕的选择，HttpComponents将抽象出大量繁琐的编码。如果你真的想用最少的代码来支持大量的HTTP服务器/客户端，我推荐这样做。顺便说一下，HttpCore可以用于功能最少的应用程序(客户端或服务器)，而HttpClient用于需要支持多种身份验证方案、cookie支持等的客户端。

您可以使用java.net.HttpUrlConnection。

示例(来自这里)，并进行了改进。包括在链接腐烂的情况下:

public static String executePost(String targetURL, String urlParameters) {
  HttpURLConnection connection = null;

  try {
    //Create connection
    URL url = new URL(targetURL);
    connection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
    connection.setRequestMethod("POST");
    connection.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", 
        "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");

    connection.setRequestProperty("Content-Length", 
        Integer.toString(urlParameters.getBytes().length));
    connection.setRequestProperty("Content-Language", "en-US");  

    connection.setUseCaches(false);
    connection.setDoOutput(true);

    //Send request
    DataOutputStream wr = new DataOutputStream (
        connection.getOutputStream());
    wr.writeBytes(urlParameters);
    wr.close();

    //Get Response  
    InputStream is = connection.getInputStream();
    BufferedReader rd = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is));
    StringBuilder response = new StringBuilder(); // or StringBuffer if Java version 5+
    String line;
    while ((line = rd.readLine()) != null) {
      response.append(line);
      response.append('\r');
    }
    rd.close();
    return response.toString();
  } catch (Exception e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
    return null;
  } finally {
    if (connection != null) {
      connection.disconnect();
    }
  }
}

我知道其他人会推荐Apache的http-客户端，但是它增加了复杂性(例如，更多可能出错的东西)，这是很少被保证的。对于简单的任务，可以使用java.net.URL。

URL url = new URL("http://www.y.com/url");
InputStream is = url.openStream();
try {
  /* Now read the retrieved document from the stream. */
  ...
} finally {
  is.close();
}

你可以使用Socket来实现

String host = "www.yourhost.com";
Socket socket = new Socket(host, 80);
String request = "GET / HTTP/1.0\r\n\r\n";
OutputStream os = socket.getOutputStream();
os.write(request.getBytes());
os.flush();

InputStream is = socket.getInputStream();
int ch;
while( (ch=is.read())!= -1)
    System.out.print((char)ch);
socket.close();