One way to store and read a text file data is to store the text files on the web. In this recipe, the content of a text file for a given URL are downloaded, read, and then displayed.
Loading external resource files by downloading files from the internet
Getting ready
For this recipe, you need to have access to the files on a web server. If you run a local web server such as Apache, or have your own web hosting, then you can use the files in the 10_02 folder and the corresponding URL.
Otherwise, you may find the following URLs useful, since they are the web locations of an image file (a Packt Publishing logo) and a text file (an ASCII-art badger picture):
