The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is the foundation protocol of the World Wide Web and can be used in any client/server application involving hypertext. HTTP is a protocol for transferring plaintext, hypertext, audio, images, or any Internet-accessible information . HTTP is an application layer protocol and is typically used between a Web browser and a Web server. A Web server is a machine (or a software) that stores websites contents. The aim of this assignment is to give students more insights, from a programming perspective, on how the interaction between the Web browser (Chrome, Internet Explorer, Firefox etc) and the Web server happens. The Requirements: 1. write a client program (using Java) to execute a single HTTP GET to a Web server to retrieve a complete file, from any website, and store it locally on your machine. Hint: the HTTP response header fields are of variable number and variable length (depending on the URL requested and the Web server reached).

The programming code should be in Java.

you should use these in the code

HttpURLconnection Class

setRequestMethod()