Copy file from client to Webserver

I have binary files and I will like to copy them from Client to server using a URL? How can I do that in a servlet. Thanks.

Take a look at http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/fileupload

In our case we want to save the files on a server different than web server. Like I will save them on the box where I have database, my webserver works on a different box. We are trying to save pictures here on file system and will create a documentlink to them thru Apache conf file on webserver using proxy. Any idea will uploadfile packages help me on this from Apache? Thanks.

Hmm. Indeed how? Maybe try BLOB? In more details, use applet which connected to your database using JDBC and save binary files using BLOB.

That is what I do now(save in blob in db and then write out to file on db server). But it is a lot of overhead. My thinking was as my database box has a http server(tomcat), may be I can create a proxy to that
http server from my public domain server where the JSP(applcation) will be hosted and copy file to that from my PC. Now,this may a theortical idea that may not work. I wanted some views on this, is it as simple as above. Thanks.

Personally, I use a proxy servlet for such purpose. It works fine for my case and exactly case as you have, I do not want to store big files in blob, I store them separately.

I really do not know how to implement this. I was going to use fileupload utility come with common lib in tomcat. By reading the documentation seems
it likes to se a path like /tmp/xx etc that should be there on web server to upload file. Here I want to upload direct to file system on third tier(where DB is mounted) using servlet running on webserver. Will appreciate any help on this.