Java Client

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.Socket;
import java.net.URL;
import java.util.Scanner;

public class Main {


  public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
    if (args.length != 1) {
      System.err.println("Pass the server IP as the sole command line argument");
      return;
    }
    try (Socket socket = new Socket(args[0], 8080)) {
      System.out.println("Enter lines of text then Ctrl+D or Ctrl+C to quit");
      Scanner scanner = new Scanner(System.in);
      Scanner in = new Scanner(socket.getInputStream());
      PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(socket.getOutputStream(), true);
      while (scanner.hasNextLine()) {
        out.println(scanner.nextLine());
        System.out.println(in.nextLine());
      }
    }

    System.out.println(getHTML("http://www.brainjar.com/java/host/test.html"));
  }

  public static String getHTML(String urlToRead) throws Exception {
    StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder();
    URL url = new URL(urlToRead);
    HttpURLConnection conn = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
    conn.setRequestMethod("GET");
    BufferedReader rd = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(conn.getInputStream()));
    String line;
    while ((line = rd.readLine()) != null) {
      result.append(line);
    }
    rd.close();
    return result.toString();
  }
}