Extracting Images from Internet

[ashsa]

Hi,

Am trying to extract an image from a URL as follows:

 
try
{
BufferedImage input = ImageIO.read(new URL("http://www.google.co.in/images/close_sm.gif"));
File outputFile = new File("image.png");
ImageIO.write(input, "PNG", outputFile);
}
catch(Exception e)
{
System.out.println(e);
}

The URL is a valid one. But still I get the following error :

 javax.imageio.IIOException: Can't get input stream from URL!

Any idea where I am going wrong ?
Thanks for any help ..

[ashsa]

Got it !!
Jus gotta set my server's proxy settings.
Included

 System.setProperty("http.proxyHost","xyz.com"); 
System.setProperty("http.proxyPort", 8080);

before creating the BufferedImage and it works fine :-)
An alternative to this could be specifying the proxy details thru command prompt during execution.
Eg:

java -Dhttp.proxyHost=xyz.com -Dhttp.proxyPort=8080 MyJavaClass

[r035198x]

Got it !!
Jus gotta set my server's proxy settings.
Included

 System.setProperty("http.proxyHost","xyz.com"); 
System.setProperty("http.proxyPort", 8080);

before creating the BufferedImage and it works fine :-)
An alternative to this could be specifying the proxy details thru command prompt during execution.
Eg:

java -Dhttp.proxyHost=xyz.com -Dhttp.proxyPort=8080 MyJavaClass

Very good work indeed.