Using a servlet to read a pdf file that is in remote server

Hi,
I read some topics about how to read a pdf file using a servlet...but my issue is that my pdf files are on a remote Sun solaris server (intranet) and my servlet will be in a public network (internet), so my question is, still be possible to use this solution to read my remote file ? how i can access the remote file ??
any idea from where I can start ??
best regards,
carlos.

You may use a FTP client component to connect with your servlet to the Sun server, retrieve the bytes and serve them to the browser. Instead of reading the stream from a local file, you will be reading from a network socket, but the code -if well written and designed- may be very similar.
There are many good ftp client components for java, you may also use other protocols like HTTP or SCP (ssh file transfer).
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