Question

Has anyone used or have any experience of using the curl-java binding package. I like curl because it supports NTLM proxy and thats very useful for what I need. We have been using curl on the command line – but a binding would provide a better integration from an application server. I’ve not been able to to find much in the way of user experience or patterns to use it.

Answer 1

Try this :

Exception handling omitted:

HttpURLConnection con = (HttpURLConnection) new 
URL("https://www.example.com").openConnection();
con.setRequestMethod("POST");
con.getOutputStream().write("LOGIN".getBytes("UTF-8"));
con.getInputStream();

To add basic authentication to this, Use :

con.setRequestProperty("Authorization", "Basic dXNlcm5hbWU6cGFzc3dvcmQ="); //username:password base64 encoded

Also You can try out the libcurl Java bindings: http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/java/.

Not a pure 100% Java solution but an option nonetheless. And It requires the C libcurl library..!!