http-request-maven-plugin is a maven plugin that performs a GET request.
It was written so that I could trigger a deployment at the end of the maven build process.
At the time I had a cgi-bin perl script that did the actual deploying, and this plugin would initiate that process. It was a bit like kubernetes, except it was vastly simpler and actually worked most of the time.
To be honest, not entirely sure any more. It's been about a decade since this thing was written and I can't find any projects that use it any more.
Will write something up one day I'm sure.
http-request-maven-plugin is licensed under the BSD 2-clause license.