java.io.file is turning // into /?

Question

I'd like to instantiate a file from an FTP path like:

java.io.File file = new File("ftp://"+"path/to/file");

But when I try to get the fileInputStream of this file:

FileInputStream in = new FileInputStream(file);

I get a java.io.FileNotFoundException.

When I debug, I can see that during the instantiation of the file object, the path turns to "ftp:/path/to/file" -- with ONE slash ==> which throws the exception since he needs double slashes "//" after "ftp:" to locate the file into the FTP server.

How can I make the path contain double slashes ?

Thank you

Answer 1

You need to use a FTP client, such as Apache Commons Net .

The File API available in the JDK cannot connect to a FTP server out of the box.