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How to use URL Connection for creating a new file/writing into an existing file.

Posted by V.K on June 13, 2001 at 10:23 AM

I am trying to open a new file on remote m/c on the intranet. I am using following code.

URL url = new URL ("ftp://user:passwd@machine_name/dir1/dir2/testFile.dat");
URLConnection conn = url.openConnection();
conn.setDoOutput(true);
PrintStream outStream = new PrintStream
(conn.getOutputStream());
outStream.print("This is a test record 1");
outStream.flush();
outStream.close();

There is no compilation error but when I execute this code I get an exception
"java.net.UnknownServiceException: protocol doesn't support output"

Help is appreciated.