Regarding ZipSample package

Guest · August 20, 2003, 9:11am

Hi,

I have just downloaded the zip package written by Rob. I am wondering if there is anybody who have implemented a zip service with password ?

It will be excellent if the zipfile service could take an optional password.

rdgs

reamon · August 20, 2003, 9:26pm

Using passwords isn’t supported in the java.util.zip classes.

Guest · August 21, 2003, 3:31pm

Hi Rob,

Am I right to say that there is no other way ? i tried the firecommand service - it doesn’t work at all or I have used it wrongly. If it requires java programming then i think i am in hot soup because i am not good in that.

rdgs

reamon · August 21, 2003, 9:33pm

Two possibilities come to mind:

Figure out how to support using a password via Java. This would take some trial and error and reverse-engineering of the zip file format.
Use command-line facilities to run zip operations from the command-line. I believe there are threads here that describe how to execute a program on the command-line.

Guest · August 25, 2003, 8:25am

Thanks. I will do a search on that.