Help Downloading a file from a server using FTP with only URL methods

Question

Hi All
I have written this code and it is not working I dod not know why the download is not working please help is there anything that's missing?
* Download the file
public void download(String fileName, String destination)
       BufferedInputStream bis = null;
       BufferedOutputStream bos = null;
      // File destDir = null;
       try
           String urlString = "ftp://"+userName+":"+password+"@"+hostName+"/"+fileName;
           URL url = new URL(urlString);
           URLConnection conn = url.openConnection();
           conn.setDoOutput(true);
     conn.setDoInput(true);
           conn.connect();
       //set the destination directory
       File destDir = new File("U:\\2004\\"+fileName.trim());
        System.out.print("\n\n");
        System.out.print("Destination set to :" +destDir);
        System.out.print("\n\n");
          bis = new BufferedInputStream( conn.getInputStream() );
          bos = new BufferedOutputStream( new FileOutputStream(destDir.getName()));
          System.out.print("get file name :" +destDir.getName());
          System.out.print("\n\n");
          int i;
          while ((i = bis.read()) != -1)
             bos.write( i );
          System.out.println("Trying to download...");
          bis.close();
          bos.close();
       catch (IOException ie)
     System.out.println( "Input not available" );
This is what I get after runing this code.
get umlcourse.txt U:\2004
Destination set to :U:\2004\umlcourse.txt
get file name :umlcourse.txtTrying to download...

Answer 1

AceV wrote:
     String urlString = "ftp://"+userName+":"+password+"@"+hostName+"/"+fileName;
You probably need to specify the transfer mode. For example:
String url = "ftp://sam:spade@ftphost/myfile.txt;type=a";
// Specify type=i for binary.