Getting Date in HTTP format in Java

java.time

EDIT:

DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("EEE, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss z", Locale.ENGLISH).withZone(ZoneId.of("GMT"))

is the way to do it with pure java.time. HTTP 1.1 is to not a 100% match with RFC 1123, so using the java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter.RFC_1123_DATE_TIME formatter will fail for day-of-month less than 10. (thanks to @PavanKamar and @ankon for pointing that out)

Note: to be backwards compliant, you would need to also support the other two formats specified by RFC 2616

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