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    FWIW, our code started with java.net.HttpURLConnection, but when we had to add SSL and work around some of the weird use cases in our screwy internal networks, it became a real headache. Apache HttpComponents saved the day. Our project currently still uses an ugly hybrid, with a few dodgy adapters to convert java.net.URLs to the URIs HttpComponents uses. I refactor those out regularly. The only time HttpComponents code turned out significantly more complicated was for parsing dates from a header. But the solution for that is still simple. Commented Dec 13, 2012 at 7:52
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    It would be helpful to add a code snippet here Commented Apr 21, 2019 at 19:36