Saving HTML page as a file on hard disc.

[Anand Kaimal]

Hi Java Ranchers; is there a way to directly save an html page of a site using a servlet and save it directly on to the hard disc without opening a browser?
Thanks in advance,
Anand.

[Sandeep Jain]

Hi ,
I dont know whether ur requirement was the same or not but what I could undestand can be achieved through this .
Make use of URL Class in an application , get all the data and store it in buffer and later on write it to the file .
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Sandeep Jain

[Frank Carver]

You do it in a servlet the same way you do in any other Java class. Open a URLConnection to the desired URL and read from the provided inputStream. Then to save to disk, just write the contents of the stream out to a FileOutputStream.

[Anand Kaimal]

Thanks guys,
I will try to do that.
Anand.

[Anand Kaimal]

I tried it and it works. Here is the code.
import java.net.*;
import java.io.*;
public class savefile
{
public static void main(String args[])
{
try
{
URL tempUrl = new URL("http://www.hotmail.com/");
InputStream inStr = tempUrl.openConnection().getInputStream();
BufferedInputStream bins = new BufferedInputStream(inStr);
FileOutputStream fostreame = new FileOutputStream("out.html");
int c;
while((c= bins.read())!=-1)
{
fostreame.write(c);
}
fostreame.close();
bins.close();
inStr.close();

}
catch (Exception e)
{
e.printStackTrace();
}


}
}
Thanks guys,
Anand.