downloading images?

[Noah Carroll]

I need to know how to download images from a web site to my computer using i/o (or a better way if one is known). Using the available input and output streams my pictures end up, well, not like they used to be. Any help is much appreciated.

[Peter Tran]

Post some of your I/O code here so we can see what you're trying to attempt. I'm assuming this is a JAVA application rather than an applet, since an applet severly restricts I/O due to security. Unless it's a trusted applet.
-Peter

[Noah Carroll]

BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(
        new InputStreamReader(
                    new URL(url).openStream()));
BufferedWriter out = new BufferedWriter(
                     new FileWriter(file));        
String s;
while((s = in.readLine()) != null) {
    out.write(s);
    out.newLine();
}
in.close();
out.close();

This is my code. The URL is created here because 'url' is a string previous to this code. I know this does not work on images becuase of the way they are made, but I can't think of how else to do it. Thanks

[Peter Tran]

Noah,
The problem with your code is you're using a Reader/Writer stream which is meant to read character (i.e. text) streams rather than a binary stream. Change your code to use BufferedInput/BufferedOutput stream.
-Peter

[John McWon]

You need to use InputStream/OutputStream or BufferInputStream/BufferOutputStream to read or write image files
try floowing code:
readImage(InputStream from, OutputStream to)
{
BufferedInputStream from = new BufferedInputStream(from);
BufferInputStream to = new BufferedOutputStream(to);
int c;
byte buf[] = new byte[2048];
try
{
System.out.println("read the other files!\n");
while((c=from.read(buf)) > -1)
{
to.write(buf);
to.flush();
}
}
catch (EOFException e) {}
catch (Exception e){}
}