A basic web browser implemented in Java

A mini exercise for the CSC611M (ADVANOS) class AY2014-2015, Term 2 by Kyle DELA CRUZ, Kristine KALAW, Kevin RIVERA, and Darren SAPALO

Reused November 11, 2015 By Darren Sapalo, Michael Lance, and David Ricafort

After a year, I (Darren) branched Kristine's work and reduced the code to a simple code snippet that performs an HTTP/1.1 GET request. It stores the request response and the content response in a folder named cache.

To change the fetched URL, the app accepts the first command line argument. You can also change the default url found in the Driver class.

public static final String defaultUrl = "google.com";

When receiving HTTP 302 or 301 responses, the app blocks while waiting for a content response at the following line:

// blocks at reader.readLine()
while ((response = reader.readLine()) != null) {
    fileWriter.append(response + "\n");
    fileWriter.flush();
    System.out.println(response);
}

It seems that the web server does not send any content when the response is a redirect.