Java downloading a JPG file with BufferedReader

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Attached is the code...
It connects to ctrlaltdelete comics website, parses through the html, finds the filename of the latest comic.
It then downloads it and displays to the screen.

Try running the program like:

WebClient >> image.jpg

ALSO, it sets off the system speaker... not sure why, but it is pretty annoying...

Anyone have java experience?

 

[kamper]

1. the jdk has an http client built in, much better than writing http by hand
2. *Reader/*Writer is for text, images are binary. Use Streams.
3. Don't store binary data in strings.
4. You are including the http return headers in your image data.
5. System.out is a PrintWriter so you can't send binary data through it.

 

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Thanks, I will take a look at your suggestions. 🙂

 

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Any links to the built in http client... Im having trouble finding it... Examples?

Sorry for the hassle, I am new to Java and wanting to get into it more.

 

[kamper]

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api...x.html?java/net/HttpURLConnection.html

But I have no idea how to use it 😛 Believe it's via some sort of provider scheme, so you feed a url (complete with http:// on front) to a factory method and get back a URLConnection which you use to get an OutputStream for the data. I could be wrong though. Google should help 🙂

 

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Yay, thanks... Found an example to download files using it. My prog. should be working in no time now 🙂