JSP server to server communications

I've never really had the benefit of working with JSP, but someone I know is wondering where they should start looking for information on negotiating server to server communications via the HTTP protocol in JSP.

Or in other words, they want a JSP script to open an HTTP request/response with a remote server. Does anyone have experience with this, or can someone help me point him in the right direction?

My standard googling strategies didn't prove too fruitful this time around :)

Server to server? Usually JSPs are a client/server technology. Regardless, the best place to start is the javax.servlet.http API here. Specifically, the javax.servlet.http package.

Thanks for the input Rock, that wasn't really what I was looking for but you got us pointed in the right direction. I came across this class which appears to be more along the lines of what we're shooting for:

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/docs/...onnection.html

Thanks again.