socket question

Ok I found this on the net

import java.io.BufferedReader;
  import java.io.InputStreamReader;
  import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
  import java.io.Writer;
  import java.net.Socket;
 
  import javax.net.ssl.SSLSocketFactory;
 
  public class Test {
 
     public static final String TARGET_HTTPS_SERVER = "www.verisign.com"; 
     public static final int    TARGET_HTTPS_PORT   = 443; 
 
     public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
 
       Socket socket = SSLSocketFactory.getDefault().
         createSocket(TARGET_HTTPS_SERVER, TARGET_HTTPS_PORT);
       try {
         Writer out = new OutputStreamWriter(
            socket.getOutputStream(), "ISO-8859-1");
         out.write("GET / HTTP/1.1\r\n");  
         out.write("Host: " + TARGET_HTTPS_SERVER + ":" + 
             TARGET_HTTPS_PORT + "\r\n");  
         out.write("Agent: SSL-TEST\r\n");  
         out.write("\r\n");  
         out.flush();  
         BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(
            new InputStreamReader(socket.getInputStream(), "ISO-8859-1"));
         String line = null;
         while ((line = in.readLine()) != null) {
            System.out.println(line);
         }
       } finally {
         socket.close(); 
       }
     }
  }

I was wondering how can I change this from 1 socket to lets say 20. Do I just do a loop?

Ah, this is clearer than the copy of the question over in the Sockets forum. The sherrifs will probably close this one, but I'll toss something in first.

You have a socket client that issues a GET to a web server somewhere and displays the results. I'd get this code out of main and into an instance method. Then we could do something like:

You could do that in a loop neatly enough. Once that's working for you, we can talk about threads and doing several at once.

Please do not cross-post the same question in multiple forums. It wastes people's time when multiple redundant conversations take place.