CloseableHttpClient httpClient = HttpClientBuilder.create() .build(); HttpGet httpGet = new HttpGet("http://www.example.com/resource"); httpGet.setHeader("User-Agent", "Mozilla/5.0"); httpGet.setHeader("Accept-Encoding", "gzip, deflate"); CloseableHttpResponse response = httpClient.execute(httpGet); int statusCode = response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode(); Header[] headers = response.getAllHeaders(); String responseBody = EntityUtils.toString(response.getEntity()); httpClient.close(); response.close();