A Client Program – WebGet

• This program lets you retrieve any item from a web server
• You specify the host and item from the command line
• For example:

  java WebGet java.sun.com /

  The "/" denotes the root page of the web server that listens to port 80 of java.sun.com
• WebGet:
  1. Establishes a connection to the host
  2. Sends a GET command to the host
  3. Receives input from the server until the server closes its connection