# ZCW-Fido-URLFetch
write a simple program that fetches a URL.
There is a Linux/Unic/Mac commandline tool named curl.
It Fetches a url and prints it to the terminal output.
Write a simple tool \`fido` that takes an argument from the commandline, and
fetches the page at that address, printing it to standard out. (The terminal)
In InteeliJ, you will need to look for a Java library that can let you get the contents of a page
from a given URL. There are several. Pick one that allows you to add it to the pom.xml file
to get the library linked into your project.
Examples
`fido https://google.com/zipcodewilmington`
returns a page something like:
```html
Error 404 (Not Found)!!1
404. That’s an error.
The requested URL /zipcodewilmington was not found on this server. That’s all we know.
```
Try a few of these,
`fido https://news.ycombinator.com/`
`fido https://www.nytimes.com/`
`fido https://example.com/`
`fido http://lorempixel.com/400/200/`
And discover your own pages as well.