Is it possible to get a remote resource by using this API: ServletContext.getResourceAsStream()

Question

Is it possible to get a remote resource by using this API: ServletContext.getResourceAsStream()

For instance: ServletContext.getResourceAsStream("http://www.xxx.com/xx.txt");

Any idea?

Thanks.

Answer 1

getResourceAsStream is meant for retrieving resources within your web-app and (unless I've misunderstood and you're trying to request a URL within your own application) that isn't true here.

You could just do something like:

     URL someUrl = new URL("http://some.link.com/");
     BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(someUrl.openStream()));
               // do stuff with the input stream
     in.close();