> * map your servlet to /fileservlet/* (according to servlet spec 2.2)
> * put a link in your page pointing to /fileservlet/foo.doc
> * in the fileservlet call request.getPathInfo() to get the filename
("foo.doc")
> * map the filename to the real filename and
> * send back the real file (e.g via requestDispatcher.forward(), if the
file has
> the correct extension or via include() if it does not. If it does not
you have
> to set the content type manually with
> response.setContentType(getServletContext().getMimeType(String
filename)))
> * as the link pointed to /fileservlet/foo.doc, the browser will take
foo.doc as
> filename.
This sounds like a nice plan. If have to pass in additional parameters,
would I do it like this:
/fileservlet?id=4/foo.doc -- and have the parameters be processed
automatically, or
/fileservlet/foo.doc?id=4 -- and have to extract the ID string/value from
the path info?
Thanks,
David
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