Java tutorial
import java.io.BufferedInputStream; import java.io.FileOutputStream; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.InputStream; import java.net.URL; import java.net.URLConnection; public class MainClass { public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception { URL u = new URL("http://www.java2s.com/binary.dat"); URLConnection uc = u.openConnection(); String contentType = uc.getContentType(); int contentLength = uc.getContentLength(); if (contentType.startsWith("text/") || contentLength == -1) { throw new IOException("This is not a binary file."); } InputStream raw = uc.getInputStream(); InputStream in = new BufferedInputStream(raw); byte[] data = new byte[contentLength]; int bytesRead = 0; int offset = 0; while (offset < contentLength) { bytesRead = in.read(data, offset, data.length - offset); if (bytesRead == -1) break; offset += bytesRead; } in.close(); if (offset != contentLength) { throw new IOException("Only read " + offset + " bytes; Expected " + contentLength + " bytes"); } String filename = u.getFile().substring(filename.lastIndexOf('/') + 1); FileOutputStream out = new FileOutputStream(filename); out.write(data); out.flush(); out.close(); } }