Saving Images from URL

Question

Hi
i am trying to save an image from the internet i am able to view them in my program but when i try to save i get the Error
javax.imageio.IIOException: Can't read input file!
If anyone could point out were i am going wrong or give a few suggestions on what to do this would be very helpful.
Below is the code i am using to to get the image from the internet and try to save it
public Image loadURL()
     Image image = null;
     try
          URL url = new URL(UrlLocation);     
          image = ImageIO.read(url);               
          File2 = url.toString();               
     catch (IOException e)
          e.printStackTrace();
     return image;     
public void saveImage(String ImageType)
          try
               FileDialog openfiledialog = new FileDialog(new Frame(),
               "Please choose Image to save",FileDialog.SAVE);
               openfiledialog.setVisible(true);          
               if (openfiledialog.getFile() != null)
                    File file = new File(openfiledialog.getDirectory(),
                    openfiledialog.getFile() + "." + ImageType);                                   
                        File outputfile = file;               
                    ImageIO.write(out, ImageType, outputfile);
          catch (IOException e)
               e.printStackTrace();
     }

Answer 1

Umm, you need to actually read the image bytes from the external webserver. It will do you good to read the javadoc for URLConnection (retrieved through URL). You can read an InputStream from it, and then you can for example put what you read into an ByteArrayOutputStream. You can ask this output stream for a byte array containing what has been written to it, and then you can write this byte array into a FileOutputStream. There may be ways to make this more effective, but these steps are essentially what should happen to solve your problem.