Writing a file into an url location

There is no such thing as "just a URL". An absolute URL always contains a scheme part that describes the protocol to use for accessing that URL (HTTP in this case). Most HTTP servers do no support content creation on URLs by default.

The most common way to put content on an HTTP server is to use FTP to put the content in a place on the server the HTTP server looks at.

However, if you control the HTTP server, you could set it up to respond to PUT or POST requests in the way you want, possibly by using WebDAV.

Herko_ter_Horsta at 2007-7-14 21:01:50 >

What you are trying to do is, in fact, uploading a file.

Now the last thing you want is for anyone to be able to write files onto your web server, so there's no built-in capacity to write to one. There is, in fact, a "PUT" transaction type defined in HTML but servers never implement it directly, in a way that allows you to write arbitary files to the server. It would be a security nightmare.

What you need to do is to have a Servlet which accepts uploaded data, using either a PUT or a POST transaction type and stores them sensibly. The servlet controlls how much data can be stored where.

Then it's easy enough to send data to that servlet.

malcolmmca at 2007-7-14 21:01:50 >