FileUpload is pretty straight forward and the examples are clear. However it sound to me like you are describing a scenario like this:
On Machine A, files foo, bar, baz, etc. and file FilesList.txt with the full paths for those files. On Server B: A web app with a form and your servlet. User at Machine A loads the form from Server B, chooses FilesList.txt and submits the form back to Server B, uploading FilesList.txt. Your servlet reads the paths in FilesList.txt and requests that Machine A send it each file listed. Is that correct? In any case, this scenario won't work without a program on Machine A that could accept a request from Server B for those files (maybe a webapp and servlet running on Machine A). But Server B cannot simply tell the browser "send me the following files". You cannot even pre-populate the <input type="file"... element with path strings from FilesList.txt in any form you send back. The user on Machine A is going to have to send each file separately, or zip them up and send them. My apologies if I got this scenario wrong. On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 8:05 PM, Konrad Zuse <thekonradz...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hello all, > > I am basically uploading a file to my server, but within that file > contains path information to images that also need to be uploaded. I am > looking to read the file mid stream and get the data for the images to > upload. It seems I am able to do this, but if this is not possible will I > be able save the file, read it, and then be able to get these images? > > I am curious about how I will go about grabbing the additional files? I > see that streaming works with InputStream from JavaIO as well as something > from CommonsIO, so I figured I could configure something to work with the > fileupload stream. > > I also thought that I could possibly try to create a form through my > servlet and pass the data through that, but I figured this would be the > less favorable approach. > > If anyone has any advice or thoughts I would appreciate it... Thanks! > > -- "Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscrib'd In one self-place; but where we are is hell, And where hell is, there must we ever be" --Christopher Marlowe, *Doctor Faustus* (v. 121-24)
