Copy a file from URL to local HDD

Question

Hi,
I've got 2 problems:
1. I'm an absolute beginner and an german-speaking user of this forum
2. I want to copy a file from within a signed applet (with full access permissions) from a URL on the server to a local directory on the client. It works with .txt or .ini files, but not with .dll or .exe. The .exe file has only 1KB instead of the 5MB and contains only something like "-1". Help!!
Here's what i made:
URL updateurl = new URL(getCodeBase() + "testfile.exe");
InputStream in = updateurl.openStream();
FileOutputStream out = new FileOutputStream("C:\\temp\\testfile.exe");
byte[] buf = new byte[4096];
int len;
while ((len = in.read(buf)) > 0)
     out.write(buf, 0, len);
out.close();
in.close();
Thanks for any help!
cmon42

Answer 1

From looking at the code I can't see any blatant errors.
The only thing I can think of, is: is your code wrapped by a try/catch block which you are ignoring?
The reason I ask, is that maybe you are not downloading the file you intended in the first place. The reason I think this is because of the line:
URL updateurl = new URL(getCodeBase() + "testfile.exe");Shoudn't there be a separator between getCodeBase() and testfile.exe? Only a guess, since getCodeBase may already return the separator.
HTH,
Manuel Amago.