Search the group for "external link opening" or similar. You should find
suggestions like:
HTML *link* = new HTML("<a href=\"http://www.google.com\
<http://www.google.com%5C>">Take me to Google</a>");
prof3ta wrote:
> The content type is correctly set from the server, as I can see from
> the firebug logs.
> If I make the browser pointing to the correct address, the pdf open/
> save dialog is showed and everything works fine.
> But, if I make a request from within gwt, the callback mechanism seems
> to override the normal behaviour of the browser.
> Do you know if it is possible to make a standard HTTP request from gwt
> without using callbacks?
>
> On Oct 14, 1:48 pm, Paul Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Security prohibits javascript from direct access to the filesystem.
>>
>> You could make the same HTTP response you get when downloading a file
>> from any web server, so the browser (rather than javascript) shows the
>> save pop-up. You should probably set the mime type ("Content-Type") and
>> "Content-Disposition" fields in the http response header.
>>
>> Whether you can do this with RequestBuilder or not, I don't know.
>>
>> prof3ta wrote:
>>
>>> Ok, I'm creating the PDF file in the server.
>>> I'm using a HTTP POST request (through the RequestBuilder object) to
>>> get the file in the client.
>>> The problem now is that I can just see the content of the file in the
>>> callback function as a string, but I'm not able to write this string
>>> into the file system, since I cannot use the standard java libraries
>>> for writing files for the same reason as above.
>>> I'd like to get the usual open/save file window dialog in my gwt
>>> application when getting the HTTP response.
>>> Any hint?
>>>
>>> On Oct 14, 10:49 am, Paul Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Yes. Do it in the server.
>>>>
>>>> prof3tawrote:
>>>>
>>>>> So, any hint on how to generate a pdf file withi gwt?
>>>>>
>>>>> On Oct 14, 10:32 am, Paul Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> GWT compiles java into javascript client-side. That means you can't use
>>>>>> any old java library in the client, only translatable java.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> prof3tawrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Pardon me, Dean. What do you mean with "server-side library"???
>>>>>>> That's java code, there should be no distinction between server and
>>>>>>> client.
>>>>>>> I tried to add the sources for the package and add them to the
>>>>>>> classpath, but no luck
>>>>>>>
> >
>
>
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