Your best bet to figure out what your browser is sending/receiving is using
a tool like Wireshark.

Sam

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 8:35 AM, caymanag <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Ok, I agree that there is apparently no content to read.   When a web
> browser
> sees the Content-disposition: attachment; filename="myfile.csv", it knows
> to
> pop up a dialog box and/or save the file to the file system.   What do I
> need to do in a client application to read an attachment, once I see this
> same header?   Do I issue another GET and somehow append the filename?
>
>
> olegk wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 04:45:52AM -0700, caymanag wrote:
> >>
> >> The log is the (DEBUG) messages that I'm getting from my session using
> >> log4j.
> >> From the Content-disposition: attachment; filename="myfile.csv" response
> >> header I see that there is a file myfile.csv to be downloaded, I just
> >> don't
> >> know how to do it.  If I paste the same GET into a web browser, I do get
> >> the
> >> file.
> >>
> >> I changed the reader code as follows:
> >> int buf = new int[10000]; int ptr = 0;
> >> while (true) {
> >>   buf[ptr++] = reader.read();
> >> }
> >>
> >> All that I end up reading is 13,10 followed by lots of -1 values.
> >>
> >
> > That's because there is no content.
> >
> > Oleg
> >
> >
>
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