Open a remote file?

[justride]

Hi all,

Can I use the File class to open a remote file that doesnt exists locally be appending

http://on

the file name?

Thanks

 

[sedj]

No.

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[Diancecht]

You can do that if the file is on a mapped drive as any regular file.

And you can also download a file with http using Java

Cheers,
Dian

 

[sedj]

(But not just by prefixing the file name with "

http://"

though)

You would need to use java.net.HttpUrlConnection to download a resource from an HTTP server.

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[stefanwagner]

You could use the class URL to read a file:

	String surl = "[URL unfurl="true"]http://home.arcor.de/hirnstrom/index.html";[/URL]
	URL url = new URL (surl);
	BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader (new InputStreamReader (url.openConnection ().getInputStream ()));

	String line = "";
	do
	{
		line = br.readLine ();
		if (line != null) System.out.println (line);
	}while (line != null);

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[sedj]

Bearing in mind that :

url.openConnection ().getInputStream ();

equates to using the HttpUrlConnection object :

HttpUrlConnection huc = (HttpUrlConnection)url.openConnection();
InputStream is = hic.getInputStream();

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[justride]

Thanks guys!