Hi David On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 6:49 PM, KARR, DAVID (ATTSI) <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a situation where I need to validate the content of a page at a URL, > where I've gotten the URL from a property in a JAX-RS response. I tried > using HTMLUnit for this, but it looks like their proxy interface doesn't > allow setting a proxy user and password, and it doesn't appear to read the > "http.proxy*" system variables. Fortunately, WebClient appears to > transparently use these (I'm guessing this is because WebClient uses > HTTPUrlConnection under the covers, whereas HTMLUnit is using a hidden > HttpClient under the covers). > > What I can't figure out, however, is how to make WebClient just return the > entire text content of the page. I thought perhaps that > "client.get(String.class)" would do it, but it does not. > What happens when you do client.get(String.class) ? That should work... If you expect XML back then using StreamSource can do as well... Also, simply client.get() will return Response and its getEntity() can be used to get to response InputStream.
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