Example

try {
  URL u = new URL(args[i]);
  if (u.getPort() != -1) port = u.getPort();
  if (!(u.getProtocol().equalsIgnoreCase("http"))) {
     System.err.println("I only understand http.");
  }
  Socket s = new Socket(u.getHost(), u.getPort());
  OutputStream theOutput = s.getOutputStream();
  PrintWriter pw = new PrintWriter(theOutput, false);
  pw.print("GET " + u.getFile() + " HTTP/1.0\r\n");
  pw.print("Accept: text/plain, text/html, text/*\r\n");
  pw.print("\r\n");
  pw.flush();
  InputStream in = s.getInputStream();
  InputStreamReader isr = new InputStreamReader(in);
  BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(isr);
  String theLine;
  while ((theLine = br.readLine()) != null) {
     System.out.println(theLine);
  }
}
catch (MalformedURLException e) {
  System.err.println(args[i] + " is not a valid URL");
}
catch (IOException e) {
  System.err.println(e);
}