Jira issue MYFACES-446 deals exactly with this. Sylvain is absolutely right. The only solution would be to rewrite current web browsers, which might be diffcult :-) I think we could close this issue. -Manfred
2005/8/31, Sylvain Vieujot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > No, there is no that I know of to do this, as it would be a security > problem for the browsers (it would allow you get any file from a user, > without him knowing it). > > > > On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 10:52 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello All, > > I'm using the FileUpload component of myfaces. It needs to provide the name > of the file in the browser and when the file is uploaded to the browser, a > link is provided to download the image. It works great! > > What I want is to push the file to the browser from the server without user > intervention, ie if they click a button, it will display the content of the > file in the browser. Basically populate the UploadedFile object manually in > the backing bean (Java code) and then when the link to display the file is > clicked, it is displayed in the browser. > > Please let me know if anyone has created the UploadedFile object (the > concrete implemenation of UploadedFile), or if there is any other solution > in which the user need not specify the name of the file to be uploaded. > > Thanks, > Himanshu
