How can I find the response time of a HTTP request through a Socket

Question

I\'m using a Java socket, connected to a server. If I send a HEADER http request, how can I measure the response time from the server? Must I use a provided java timer, or is t

Answer 1

Something like this might do the trick

import java.io.IOException;

import org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpClient;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethod;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.URIException;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.HeadMethod;
import org.apache.commons.lang.time.StopWatch;
//import org.apache.commons.lang3.time.StopWatch

public class Main {

    public static void main(String[] args) throws URIException {
        StopWatch watch = new StopWatch();
        HttpClient client = new HttpClient();
        HttpMethod method = new HeadMethod("http://stackoverflow.com/");

        try {
            watch.start();
            client.executeMethod(method);
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } finally {
            watch.stop();
        }

        System.out.println(String.format("%s %s %d: %s", method.getName(), method.getURI(), method.getStatusCode(), watch.toString()));

    }
}

HEAD http://stackoverflow.com/ 200: 0:00:00.404