Read a GIF from a URL and save it locally in Java

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import java.io.DataInputStream;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.net.URL;
import java.net.URLConnection;

public class Main {
  public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception {
    byte[] b = new byte[1];
    URL url = new URL("http://www.server.com/a.gif");
    URLConnection urlConnection = url.openConnection();
    urlConnection.connect();
    DataInputStream di = new DataInputStream(urlConnection.getInputStream());

    FileOutputStream fo = new FileOutputStream("a.gif");
    while (-1 != di.read(b, 0, 1))
      fo.write(b, 0, 1);
    di.close();
    fo.close();
  }
}