How to HTTP GET or POST with Matlab or Octave?

Question

In Matlab Function Alphabetical Reference I only found the following function:

• web - Open Web site or file in Web or Help browser

Isn't there a way of accessing a web resource without opening a browser? Or how to close the browser?

I tried web stackoverflow.com -browser and it doesn't open the browser, but fiddler tells me that no web resource was fetched because of this command.

Edit Somehow Fiddler doesn't gets the Matlab http traffic, so I guess that the web url -browser command works for me, but I'd rather use the urlread command as suggested

Answer 1

urlread might do the job. In case of proxy issues this post might help as well.

Looking at the implementation you might see that The MathWorks is heavily relying on Java libraries.