Read Image File Through Java Socket

Question

This is what I have so far,

Socket clientSocket = new Socket(HOST, PORT);

ByteArrayOutputStream buffer = new ByteArrayOutputStream();

InputStream is = sock         


        

Answer 1

Why you don't want to use simple http URL to get image from host? I mean:

URL imageURL = new URL("http://host:port/address");
BufferedImage bufferedImage = ImageIO.read(imageURL);

If you want to use plain socket you have to parse http response and extract data from the http reply manually: read/skip headers, read binary data and pass it to ImageIO.read (or seek stream to correct position and pass stream to ImageIO.read).