Download Files From Webserver

[Christophe Vanfleteren]

I'd like to be able to connect to a web server and download a file. Is
there some way to do this? Some tips would be nice, thanks.

I'm just running a normal application, not a web application.

check out http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/httpclient/

 

[Andrew]

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I'd like to be able to connect to a web server and download a file. Is
there some way to do this? Some tips would be nice, thanks.

I'm just running a normal application, not a web application.

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[Steve W. Jackson]

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Since Java is pretty much inherently "network literate" you may want to
peruse some of the classes in the java.net package. You can construct a
URL pointing to the file on the web server you want, make your own
connection, retrieve the file, etc.

= Steve =

 

[Roedy Green]

the easy way is to use the FileTransfer.dowload class.

See http://mindprod.com/products.html#FILETRANSFER

Here is typical code to do it:

new FileTransfer( buffsize ).download ( new URl (
"http://mindprod.com/index.html"), new File ("c:\temp\index.html") );

 

[Harald Hein]

I'd like to be able to connect to a web server and download a
file. Is there some way to do this? Some tips would be nice,
thanks.

I'm just running a normal application, not a web application.

Use a URLConnection, get the input stream from the connection and read
your data. The networking tutorial on the sun java web site has a
similar example.

 

[Andrew]

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| I'd like to be able to connect to a web server and download a file. Is
| there some way to do this? Some tips would be nice, thanks.
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| I'm just running a normal application, not a web application.
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Thanks for all that.

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