diff --git a/core-java-modules/core-java-networking/pom.xml b/core-java-modules/core-java-networking/pom.xml
index 19c620198d..59aadbd1ed 100644
--- a/core-java-modules/core-java-networking/pom.xml
+++ b/core-java-modules/core-java-networking/pom.xml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
-    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+         xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+         xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
     <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
     <artifactId>core-java-networking</artifactId>
     <name>core-java-networking</name>
@@ -19,6 +19,11 @@
             <artifactId>spring-web</artifactId>
             <version>${springframework.spring-web.version}</version>
         </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
+            <artifactId>httpclient</artifactId>
+            <version>${apache.httpclient.version}</version>
+        </dependency>
     </dependencies>
 
     <build>
@@ -27,6 +32,7 @@
 
     <properties>
         <springframework.spring-web.version>4.3.4.RELEASE</springframework.spring-web.version>
+        <apache.httpclient.version>4.5.14</apache.httpclient.version>
     </properties>
 
 </project>
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diff --git a/core-java-modules/core-java-networking/src/test/java/com/baeldung/networking/url/UrlUnitTest.java b/core-java-modules/core-java-networking/src/test/java/com/baeldung/networking/url/UrlUnitTest.java
index 112f2cf53f..87d9d7a620 100644
--- a/core-java-modules/core-java-networking/src/test/java/com/baeldung/networking/url/UrlUnitTest.java
+++ b/core-java-modules/core-java-networking/src/test/java/com/baeldung/networking/url/UrlUnitTest.java
@@ -1,11 +1,19 @@
 package com.baeldung.networking.url;
 
+import static java.util.stream.Collectors.toList;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
 
 import java.net.MalformedURLException;
+import java.net.URISyntaxException;
 import java.net.URL;
+import java.util.Map;
 
+import org.apache.http.client.utils.URIBuilder;
+import org.apache.http.message.BasicNameValuePair;
 import org.junit.Test;
+import org.springframework.web.util.UriComponentsBuilder;
+
+import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableMap;
 
 public class UrlUnitTest {
 
@@ -101,4 +109,44 @@ public class UrlUnitTest {
         assertEquals("http://baeldung.com:9000/guidelines.txt", url.toString());
     }
 
-}
+    @Test
+    public void givenUrlParameters_whenBuildUrlWithURIBuilder_thenSuccess() throws URISyntaxException, MalformedURLException {
+        URIBuilder uriBuilder = new URIBuilder("http://baeldung.com/articles");
+        uriBuilder.setPort(9090);
+        uriBuilder.addParameter("topic", "java");
+        uriBuilder.addParameter("version", "8");
+        URL url = uriBuilder.build().toURL();
+        assertEquals("http://baeldung.com:9090/articles?topic=java&version=8", url.toString());
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenUrlParametersInMap_whenBuildUrlWithURIBuilder_thenSuccess() throws URISyntaxException, MalformedURLException {
+        Map<String, String> paramMap = ImmutableMap.of("topic", "java", "version", "8");
+        URIBuilder uriBuilder = new URIBuilder("http://baeldung.com/articles");
+        uriBuilder.setPort(9090);
+        uriBuilder.addParameters(paramMap.entrySet()
+          .stream()
+          .map(entry -> new BasicNameValuePair(entry.getKey(), entry.getValue()))
+          .collect(toList()));
+
+        URL url = uriBuilder.build().toURL();
+        assertEquals("http://baeldung.com:9090/articles?topic=java&version=8", url.toString());
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void givenUrlParameters_whenBuildUrlWithSpringUriComponentsBuilder_thenSuccess() throws MalformedURLException {
+        URL url = UriComponentsBuilder.newInstance()
+          .scheme("http")
+          .host("baeldung.com")
+          .port(9090)
+          .path("articles")
+          .queryParam("topic", "java")
+          .queryParam("version", "8")
+          .build()
+          .toUri()
+          .toURL();
+
+        assertEquals("http://baeldung.com:9090/articles?topic=java&version=8", url.toString());
+    }
+
+}
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