Enterprise Curl

HTTPCommunication

In Chapter 3, we saw how the HTTPCommunication class could be used as a single source for all HTTP communication to ensure that a consistent approach is applied throughout the framework. We created this class with a single method called {connect}, which was used to create a connection to a server-side Web page and accept back the response. Now we will add another method to its API, as shown in the code listing in Figure 9-12.

The {open-link} method has a single argument called page-name, which represents the page resource being opened. The method first checks the AppParameters setting to determine if the framework is running against a Web server or the local filesystem, and then creates the correct address String syntax. This ...