How to extract a single file from a remote archive file?

Question

Given

1. URL of an archive (e.g. a zip file)
2. Full name (including path) of a file inside that archive

I\'m looking for a way (preferably i

Answer 1

I'm not sure if there's a way to pull out a single file from a ZIP without downloading the whole thing first. But, if you're the one hosting the ZIP file, you could create a Java servlet which reads the ZIP file and returns the requested file in the response:

public class GetFileFromZIPServlet extends HttpServlet{
  @Override
  public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
  throws ServletException, IOException{
    String pathToFile = request.getParameter("pathToFile");

    byte fileBytes[];
    //get the bytes of the file from the ZIP

    //set the appropriate content type, maybe based on the file extension
    response.setContentType("...");

    //write file to the response
    response.getOutputStream().write(fileBytes);
  }
}