How to get the date of URL connection in Java

Problem Description:

How to get the date of URL connection?

Solution:

Following example demonstrates how to get the date of URL connection by using httpCon.getDate() method of HttpURLConnection class.

import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.URL;
import java.util.Date;

public class Main{
   public static void main(String args[]) 
   throws Exception {
      URL url = new URL("http://www.google.com");
      HttpURLConnection httpCon = 
      (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
      long date = httpCon.getDate();
      if (date == 0)
      System.out.println("No date information.");
      else
      System.out.println("Date: " + new Date(date));
   }
}

Result:

The above code sample will produce the following result.

Date:05.26.2009