Hi All, I m trying for a http download from a server. For this at the client side i am having an applet which initiates the dowloading process. And at server side i have a servlet or a jsp that does some encoding and pushing process to the client for the files through a URL connection. But i want to skip the encoding process at the server side through the use of any stardard API. Like for example i can use Class.getResourceAsStream() in my applet class for getting a file stream of the file on the server. But the problem here is that the particular file should be in the context i.e i can only give relative path. But what i want is that my path of the file should not be relative and but real path like .... c:/abc.txt ( on server ) But as expected it does not work... as the Class Loader is does not able locate it. So here come the problem... "Can I be able to use the real path to do the same job through the use getResourceAsStream() or some other API if i can modify the Class Loader. If then how can i achive this..??? " Please help me out in what i think or if there is any other better way of doing this then please me know... regards, Abhishek Vishwakarma =========================================================================== To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff JSP-INTEREST". For digest: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "set JSP-INTEREST DIGEST". Some relevant FAQs on JSP/Servlets can be found at: http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/faq.html http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.html http://www.jguru.com/jguru/faq/faqpage.jsp?name=JSP http://www.jguru.com/jguru/faq/faqpage.jsp?name=Servlets