Getting PDF files

Question

Hi!
I am writting a code to get pdf files in order to concat it lately. I am using this piece of code:
  public void get(String strURL, String strFileName){
    try {
      URL url = new URL(strURL);
      URLConnection urlconn;
      urlconn = url.openConnection();
      BufferedReader buff = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(urlconn.getInputStream()));
      File file = new File(strFileName);
      BufferedWriter bw = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter(file));
      System.out.println("writing the file");
      int value;
      char [] charBuff = new char [10];
      while ((value = buff.read(charBuff)) != -1){
        bw.write(charBuff);
      buff.close();
      bw.close();
    } catch (MalformedURLException ex) {
      System.out.println("URL malformed");
      ex.printStackTrace();
    } catch (FileNotFoundException ex) {
      System.out.println("File not found");
      ex.printStackTrace();
    } catch (IOException ex) {
      System.out.println("I/O Error");
      ex.printStackTrace();
  }Unfortunately, this does not seem to work. The get file is unreadeable. If I compare to files, one get by firefox or any other browser, and the other downloaded with my application, some characters seems to be not exactly he same.
Any ideas? Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Thanks a lot for the tip!
Honestly, I copy this code from a Sun Java Tutorial for handling URL connections, I did not think about binary files at all. I thought it was an encoding issue. Sorry I the question was silly.