• The HttpURLConnection Class
• Reading HTTP Response Headers
• Setting HTTP Request Headers
• Managing HTTP Timeouts

    The connection between a bot and a web server is very important. In the previous chapters this link was established using either a Socket object or an InputStream object, obtained from a call to the openStream function of a URL class. There is a third way to open a connection to a web server?you can use the HttpURLConnection object. In summary, the three ways to open a connection to a web server are:

• Socket
• InputStream from URL.openStream
• HttpURLConnection

    The HttpURLConnection class allows much more flexibility than just using an InputStream object. It is also much simpler to use than a socket.