Serving HTTP Content

Socket client = serverSocket.accept();
											BufferedReader in =
											new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
											client.getInputStream()));
											// before serving a response, typically you would
											// read the client input and process the request.
											PrintWriter out =
											new PrintWriter(client.getOutputStream());
											out.println("HTTP/1.1 200");
											out.println("Content-Type: text/html");
											String html = "<html><head><title>Test Response" +
											"</title></head><body>Just a test</body></html>";
											out.println("Content-length: " + html.length());
											out.println(html);
											out.flush();
											out.close();

In this phrase, we show an example of serving a very simple piece of HTML content via HTTP. We accept a connection with a client, create a BufferedReader to read the client’s request, ...

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