Fetch files over web server

[Juuno]

Hi, I am just a newbie and I need to write some programs.

I have one directory and under that directory, I have 35 xml files in the Apache Web Server. The path for the directory is like //localhost:8081/dirxml/

And path for the xml files are like..
//localhost:8081/dirxml/mycontacts.xml
//localhost:8081/dirxml/favourtieactor.xml
//localhost:8081/dirxml/favouritesinger.xml
....
....
.... and so on....


I would like to fetch them from my java program and then produce an xml file which is a combination of those xml files.

So, how can I fetch those xml files from web server simultaneously? Is it ok if I use java.net.URL class. But what I found so far is it needs to give the exact URL path like //localhost:8081/dirxml/mycontacts.xml?? But I can't do it coz I don't want to give those xml file names and fetches. What I want to do is to fetch the files under that directory without knowing the file name. It is like to fetch all the files under that directory which ends with .xml

How can I do this? And is there any reference for it.

Thanks in advance.

[fishtoprecords]

You really want to use a Java library that lets your application emulate a web browser. While you can do it all by hand using URL classes, its fairly hard to get all the special cases to work.

Get the Apache java HTTP client code, use it.

[Steve11235]

FTR is pointing you in the right direction. Java will do a lot of the work for you, but getting directory listings from an HTTP server tends to be server dependent.

Also, make sure the server allows directory listing against that directory. I'm guessing the default is to disallow that function, as a security measure.

[graveyard220]

there is no simple way to do that because this is not a real path for a file system so this will be some huge code because you want to parse an html resulted from specified url and get the resulted inline files,
but fortunately apache did that effort and make a package called ivr this have more utilities to do such that things,
so,
you can download the binary from this location:
ht tp:// ant. apache .org/ivy /do wnload. cgi

and then use it as simple as:

package networkanddatabase;

import java.io.BufferedInputStream;
import java.io.BufferedOutputStream;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.URL;
import java.net.URLConnection;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.List;

import org.apache.ivy.util.url.ApacheURLLister;

public class FetchFilesFromHttpURL {
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		URL url;
		try {
			url = new URL(youre url);
			File destFolder = new File("c:\\test");
			ApacheURLLister lister = new ApacheURLLister();
			// this list of URLs objects
			List files = lister.listAll(url);
			System.out.println("list file is complete.."+files);
			for (Iterator iter = files.iterator(); iter.hasNext();) {
				URL fileUrl = (URL) iter.next();
				httpFileDownload(fileUrl, destFolder);
			}
			System.out.println("download is complete..");
		} catch (Exception e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
		}

	}

	public static void httpFileDownload(URL url, File destFolder) throws Exception {
		File destination = new File(destFolder, url.getFile());
		destination.getParentFile().mkdirs();
		BufferedInputStream bis = null;
		BufferedOutputStream bos = null;
		try {
			URLConnection urlc = url.openConnection();

			bis = new BufferedInputStream(urlc.getInputStream());
			bos = new BufferedOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(destination.getPath()));

			int i;
			while ((i = bis.read()) != -1) {
				bos.write(i);
			}
		} finally {
			if (bis != null)
				try {
					bis.close();
				} catch (IOException ioe) {
					ioe.printStackTrace();
				}
			if (bos != null)
				try {
					bos.close();
				} catch (IOException ioe) {
					ioe.printStackTrace();
				}
		}
	}
}

this is all thing that I can do..

salam :cool: