how to download pic from url ?

[langkins]

this is the url : http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/profile5/650/120/q688291774_4527.jpg

if i user URL to open stream , then it returns Host unknown
could anybody tell me how to do that ? thank you.

[soneff]

Could you provide a snippet of code explaining what you are trying to do? Are you just trying to download the image?

[langkins]

like

URL url = new URL(urlStr);
URLConnection conn = URLConnection(url)
Object content = conn.getContent();
.....

[langkins]

yes, i just download the pictures like profile pic and want to show it to the friends list in a listview

[lshepard]

Does this happen reliably, every time for that URL? Only on the phone or also on the emulator? Or if it's sporadic, is there a pattern to the failures?

[langkins]

thank you for your reply.
i got the answer about this problem.
it was because i use a proxy for the wifi to connect to fb. and it got some problem with the dns resolving

[keshy]

Hey,
How did you find the URL for the profile pic?..was it after parsing the JSON response?

Sorry, a noob here...just feeling my way around.
Thanks

[lshepard]

keshy- the JSON response will contain the profile pic if you explicitly request it:

http://graph.facebook.com/lukeshepard?fields=picture