CloseableHttpClient httpClient = HttpClients.createDefault(); HttpGet httpGet = new HttpGet("http://example.com"); try { HttpResponse response = httpClient.execute(httpGet); int statusCode = response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode(); HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity(); String content = EntityUtils.toString(entity, "UTF-8"); System.out.println("Status Code: " + statusCode); System.out.println("Content: " + content); } finally { httpClient.close(); } OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient(); Request request = new Request.Builder() .url("http://example.com") .build(); try (Response response = client.newCall(request).execute()) { int statusCode = response.code(); String content = response.body().string(); System.out.println("Status Code: " + statusCode); System.out.println("Content: " + content); } RequestConfig requestConfig = RequestConfig.custom() .build(); HttpGet httpGet = new HttpGet("http://example.com"); httpGet.setConfig(requestConfig);