Reading a file from server's directory by appending filename to base URL

Question

I have written a method which reads a file from server and it was working fine but now I have modified it to take a filename as parameter and read that file from server. It is a boolean method which returns false if the file was not found on server directory. The problem is, it is catching an exception I don't know what could be the possible reason for it because the file is present on the server directory any help would be grateful.

public final boolean readDataFromServer (String fileName)
{
    try
    {
        String url = "http://example.com/FolderName/".concat(fileName);
        URL webServer = new URL (url);
        Scanner reader = new Scanner(webServer.openStream());

        // reading data in variables by using nextLine() method

        reader.close();
        return true;
     }

     catch (MalformedURLException e)
    {
        return false;
    }
    catch (IOException e)
    {
        JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,"The file was not found on the server");
        return false;
    }
    catch (Exception e)     // this is the block where I'm getting an exception
    {
        System.out.println("Exception here");
        return false;

    }
}

EDIT: I tried to print the exception and I got this: "java.util.NoSuchElementException: No line found" while the file present on my server is accessible and has data in it.

Answer 1

It is working fine now. The problem was the loop which was reading the data I called hasNextLine() method from scanner class in the condition and it worked perfectly.