How to create file into another host from a host

[varadha]

Hi,


I want to create a file "file1.txt" which holds the input from host1.

I have to upload this file in another host (host2).

I could connect to host2 location using http. The location is
http://host2/file/

Kindly let me know if there exists a solution.


Thank You.

[travishein]

Kindly let me know if there exists a solution.

Yes, there exists a solution to do this.

[varadha]

Can you please explain the approach to achieve this

[travishein]

well, the problem is not clearly stated, so ill try based on some assumptions.
I assume that server1 is a web server and it has received data from a user that filled in a form on a screen in an application in server1 and for what ever reason we want to get this data to server 2.

You said upload, so I assume you don't have direct database or file system access, such as it is to an external site and the only aproach is HTTP.

So in this case, I would probably use a http client library such as the commons-httpclient from a servlet inside my server1 application to do a HTTP post to the server2.

where server2 would run a servlet mapped to a url that i expect to be secured and only invocabley by server1, perhaps http authentication. and i would have the servlet receive the post body, which in this case is the file content, and write it out to the server 2 file system, or what ever it is that it should do with it.

though this sounds a lot like what would be readily possible to do with web services, such as a SOAP message, which would probably use axis2 library, or JSON message which I would use my own json.org based parser in my receiver servlet. and possibly not even use a file, but the form data contents as the message body.

but either of the HTTP based messaging approaches is well suited for use where the sender is a web server (server1), or a human running a command line application with the commons-httpclient or axis2 libraries built into it, to connect to the server2

hope that helps