file upload from action

[Nesrin aboud]

I want to upload a file,
I have the complete path on client side
and the server path also is ready to receive the uploaded file

but I do not know how to user the String path on client side.
I do not want to use the <c:file/> I want to use the path that I have directly


I found a sample of code using the PosMethod
can this work or not inside my Action

and how to set the path of client file into the it

import org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpClient;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpStatus;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.PostMethod;

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;

public class PostMethodExample {

  public static void main(String args[]) {

    HttpClient client = new HttpClient();
    client.getParams().setParameter("http.useragent", "Test Client");

    BufferedReader br = null;

    PostMethod method = new PostMethod("http://search.yahoo.com/search");
    method.addParameter("p", "\"java2s\"");

    try{
      int returnCode = client.executeMethod(method);

      if(returnCode == HttpStatus.SC_NOT_IMPLEMENTED) {
        System.err.println("The Post method is not implemented by this URI");
        // still consume the response body
        method.getResponseBodyAsString();
      } else {
        br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(method.getResponseBodyAsStream()));
        String readLine;
        while(((readLine = br.readLine()) != null)) {
          System.err.println(readLine);
      }
      }
    } catch (Exception e) {
      System.err.println(e);
    } finally {
      method.releaseConnection();
      if(br != null) try { br.close(); } catch (Exception fe) {}
    }

  }
} 

[Ankit Garg]

Okay so you want to read a file on client's machine directly from your struts action?? This is not possible, you cannot read any file from the client's hard disk. The only way to do this is the browser sends the file to the server using <input type="file" /> (or <s:file> struts tag)...

[David Newton]

This is basically the same question that was already answered here.