How to download and save a file from Internet using Java?

Question

There is an online file (such as http://www.example.com/information.asp) I need to grab and save to a directory. I know there are several methods for grabbing a

Answer 1

Downloading a file requires you to read it, either way you will have to go through the file in some way. Instead of line by line, you can just read it by bytes from the stream:

BufferedInputStream in = new BufferedInputStream(new URL("http://www.website.com/information.asp").openStream())
    byte data[] = new byte[1024];
    int count;
    while((count = in.read(data,0,1024)) != -1)
    {
        out.write(data, 0, count);
    }