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# Recipes

We've written some recipes that demonstrate how to solve common problems with OkHttp. Read through them to learn about how everything works together. Cut-and-paste these examples freely; that's what they're for.

### Synchronous Get ([.kt][SynchronousGetKotlin], [.java][SynchronousGetJava])

Download a file, print its headers, and print its response body as a string.

            headerNameIndex = staticIndex + 1
            if (headerNameIndex in 2..7) {
              // Only search a subset of the static header table. Most entries have an empty value, so
              // it's unnecessary to waste cycles looking at them. This check is built on the
              // observation that the header entries we care about are in adjacent pairs, and we
              // always know the first index of the pair.