Contra Kirby

I don't mean to be annoying, but I was really hoping for a solution to my problem.

Well I did catch the exceptions, I just didn't feel like showing you guys the code. It involved some stupid trickery that I needed to do to see what printStackTrace() prints to the console (IE sucks), besides that code was working fine, I was only showing the problematic code.
ftp command does not work, however sftp does...I am once again at a loss of what I should do. I tried connecting to the url sftp://name:_pass@host.edu/~/public_html/game/sprites/a but got a malformedURL exception. The api really doesnt go into depth as to what kind of urls it accepts...
[ February 27, 2004: Message edited by: Contra Kirby ]

Well finally I have a stack trace:
Connection refused: connect java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method) java.net.PlainSocketImpl.doConnect(Unknown Source) java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(Unknown Source) java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(Unknown Source) java.net.Socket.connect(Unknown Source) sun.net.NetworkClient.doConnect(Unknown Source) sun.net.NetworkClient.openServer(Unknown Source) sun.net.ftp.FtpClient.openServer(Unknown Source) sun.net.ftp.FtpClient.<init>(Unknown Source) sun.net.www.protocol.ftp.FtpURLConnection.connect(Unknown Source) sun.net.www.protocol.ftp.FtpURLConnection.getOutputStream(Unknown Source) SpriteBuilder.saveSprite(SpriteBuilder.java:77) SpriteBuilder.actionPerformed(SpriteBuilder.java:106) java.awt.Button.processActionEvent(Unknown Source) java.awt.Button.processEvent(Unknown Source) java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source) java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source) java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source) java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForHierarchy(Unknown Source) java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(Unknown Source) java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source) java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source) java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(Unknown Source)
The code leading up to line 77 in SpriteBuilder.saveSprite():
(note that where name and pass are I have my real name and pass for this server)
public void saveSprite() { try { URL file = new URL("ftp://name: pass@neverland.ncssm.edu/~/public_htmlgame/sprites/" + fname.getText()) ; URLConnection connect = file.openConnection() ; connect.setDoOutput(true) ; OutputStream out = connect.getOutputStream() ;
I tried that ftp://username: password@compy.host.edu/game/sprites but it didn't work. This server does have password protection and I don't even think it allows regular ftp, which is probably a problem. I tried http before but it doesn't let me create a file on the server. This is all very aggrivating and I thought I made it fairly clear what I want to do, but no one is giving me much to go on here. At any rate, once this works...

...hahahaha!
[ February 20, 2004: Message edited by: Contra Kirby ]
[ February 20, 2004: Message edited by: Contra Kirby ]

The error I got was "Connection refused: connect"
[ February 19, 2004: Message edited by: Contra Kirby ]

So I got some code, and it is stinking up the server it inhabits. The foul odor is ridiculous:
(some preemptive notes:
fname is a TextField
screen is a class I made and screen.getMap() returns Color [][]
)
try { URL file = new URL("ftp://neverland.ncssm.edu/~kirbyc/game/sprites/" + fname.getText()) ; URLConnection connect = file.openConnection() ; connect.setDoOutput(true) ; OutputStream out = connect.getOutputStream() ; Color [][] map = screen.getMap() ; byte [] b = new byte[25*25] ; for (int i=0; i < 25; i++) { for (int j=0; j < 25; j++) { b[i*25+j] = (byte)(Arrays.binarySearch(COLORS, map[i][j].getRed())) ; } } out.write(b) ; out.close() ; } catch (MalformedURLException e) { } catch (IOException e) { }
This compiles just fine, but depending on what OS I use I get different runtime errors. Basically, I want to write some bytes to a file on a server from an applet. The file that I want to write will be given in the TextField. If someone can merely tell me how to write to a file, I can figure out what to put into the file just fine...thanks in advance?

What I want is for the applet to make a file on the server, not on the client...

I have been looking up on the internet for quite a while how to make a FileWriter object in an applet. I always do exactly as the code says and get a permissions exception. I don't really know what to do about all of this...I am working on a UNIX filesystem, and I have even tried setting the permissions for the directory my applet is in to 777. The following is the code I used:
import... public class MyClass ... { ... foo() { ... String outFileName = System.getProperty("user.home", "home/kirbyc/public_html/game/poo") ; File outFile = new File(outFileName) ; try { FileWriter out = new FileWriter(outFile) ; out.write("POO!") ; out.close() ; } (catch IOException e) {} ... } ... }
Ach! What have I done wrong lassie, what have I done wrong.