How to run the QuickStart.java HttpComponents Client Example? I have httpcomponents-client-4.5.3-bin.zip installed.

If you have httpcomponents-client-4.5.3-bin.zip installed, you can follow this tutorial to run the QuickStart.java HttpComponents Client Example:

1. Open the example program file QuickStart.java from \fyicenter\httpcomponents-client-4.5.3\examples\org\apache\http\examples\client folder:

/*
 * ====================================================================
 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
 * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
 * ...
 */
package org.apache.http.examples.client;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.NameValuePair;
import org.apache.http.client.entity.UrlEncodedFormEntity;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.CloseableHttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpPost;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClients;
import org.apache.http.message.BasicNameValuePair;
import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;

public class QuickStart {

    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        CloseableHttpClient httpclient = HttpClients.createDefault();
        try {
            HttpGet httpGet = new HttpGet("http://httpbin.org/get");
            CloseableHttpResponse response1 = httpclient.execute(httpGet);
            try {
                System.out.println(response1.getStatusLine());
                HttpEntity entity1 = response1.getEntity();
                // do something useful with the response body
                // and ensure it is fully consumed
                EntityUtils.consume(entity1);
            } finally {
                response1.close();
            }

            HttpPost httpPost = new HttpPost("http://httpbin.org/post");
            List <NameValuePair> nvps = new ArrayList <NameValuePair>();
            nvps.add(new BasicNameValuePair("username", "vip"));
            nvps.add(new BasicNameValuePair("password", "secret"));
            httpPost.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(nvps));
            CloseableHttpResponse response2 = httpclient.execute(httpPost);

            try {
                System.out.println(response2.getStatusLine());
                HttpEntity entity2 = response2.getEntity();
                // do something useful with the response body
                // and ensure it is fully consumed
                EntityUtils.consume(entity2);
            } finally {
                response2.close();
            }
        } finally {
            httpclient.close();
        }
    }
}

2. Compile the example with Java SE 8 JDK compiler:

\fyicenter\httpcomponents-client-4.5.3\examples>\fyicenter\jdk-1.8.0\bin\javac
   -cp ..\lib\httpclient-4.5.3.jar;..\lib\httpcore-4.4.6.jar 
   org\apache\http\examples\client\QuickStart.java

3. Run the example:

\fyicenter\httpcomponents-client-4.5.3\examples>\fyicenter\jdk-1.8.0\bin\java
   -cp .\;..\lib\httpclient-4.5.3.jar;..\lib\httpcore-4.4.6.jar;..\lib\commons-logging-1.2.jar 
   org.apache.http.examples.client.QuickStart

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
HTTP/1.1 200 OK

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