How can I find the response time of a HTTP request through a Socket

Question

I\'m using a Java socket, connected to a server. If I send a HEADER http request, how can I measure the response time from the server? Must I use a provided java timer, or is t

Answer 1

Maybe I'm missing something, but why don't you just use:

// open your connection
long start = System.currentTimeMillis();
// send request, wait for response (the simple socket calls are all blocking)
long end = System.currentTimeMillis();
System.out.println("Round trip response time = " + (end-start) + " millis");