In java, how to create HttpsURLConnection or HttpURLConnection based on the url?

Question

I\'m working on a project where I\'m creating a class to run http client requests (my class acts as a client). It takes in a url and a request method (GET, POST, PUT, etc)

Answer 1

HttpsURLConnection extends HttpUrlConnection, so you do not need the HttpsUrlConnection, you can just do

HttpURLConnection conn = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();