Specify Remote Location for PrintWriter (applet question)

Question

Hello,
I am trying to use a Java applet to access a URL, read in its text content, and save it to a file. The applet is run off an online host (our school server) so I made it a signed JAR file so I could access other hosts. However, here is my problem. The applet itself is in a remote location (our school server, a unix server). I can edit the directory via SSH to add files, and these files become accessible via my homepage (where I'm running the applet from in my browser). But what I need to do is write a file IN THE SAME DIRECTORY as the applet is being run from (ie, the remote directory). But I find that when I run the applet from my browser, it instead by default saves the file I've written to in the local machine's home directory (the desktop). How can I force the applet to save/write to a file in that remote directory (I have the permissions set up on it so that non-owner can write to the directory).
Maybe this isn't possible. I wasn't sure. Here is my code:
      //get URL containing the escape table
      URL inputURL = new URL(inputLocation);
      //make connection to the URL
      URLConnection inputCon = inputURL.openConnection();
      //save URL's contents as text file in same directory
      BufferedReader inputStream = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(inputCon.getInputStream(), "UTF-8"));
      //save with same name as URL file
      File file = new File(inputURL.getFile());
      String filename = file.getName();
      PrintWriter outputStream = new PrintWriter(new File(filename), "UTF-8"); //this didn't work either: outputStream = new PrintWriter(filename, "UTF-8");
      //line of current input
      String line = null;
      //output text file to local text file line-by-line
      while((line = inputStream.readLine()) != null)
        System.out.println("line=" + line); //TEST TO MAKE SURE ACTUALLY READING FILE
        outputStream.println(line);
      }According to my System.out.println, it IS actually accessing the URL and reading each line from the URL's text file correctly, and outputStream.println(line) is correctly printing to the file; it's just doing it in the wrong place!
Also, I should specify: I can't hard encode the file location. It could be anywhere in my html directory. Rather, I want a way to save it in the same directory as the applet was deployed from.

Answer 1

It's for an assignment. All our assignments have to be applets and run from our unix server. I have to access a URL and get data from it, then create that file, then use that file as a reference table for something else.
The tragic part is I think I have everything else working, but I've no way to test it, as I cannot figure out how to access URLs in jgrasp (my IDE - just running the java file itself as an applet within the IDE has the error message about being unable to connect to the URL, since the applet is not signed, but I've no way how to get around that within the IDE itself) so I am testing it directly on the server as a signed jar file so I can at least access the urls.
The requirements stated:
"make a text file (UTF-8 encoding) of the file name t in the same directory where an applet is deployed; "
# A program must be written as an applet in Java. Other programming languages such as JavaScript cannot be used.
# The applet must be deployed on the ITS Web server
I could be missing something, honestly. >_< I might have a word with the TA. I'm just really frustrated since I have everything else working.