HI I do something similiar where I offer the ability for the user
to download a html report down to disk.
The simplified code looks like as the following:
( Note: I am using JavaBeans to produce the actual data)
The content type is where you specify the mime type you want the browser to
handle. IN this case I make up my own, since that forces the browser to open
a save file request. If you were to change it to a different mime type like
excel (which will vary from machine to machine depending on the version of
excel you have installed, on my machine its application/x-msexcel ) the
browser will change its behavior accordingly
Of course each browser type will handle it differently depending on
configuration and browser species)
<%@ page buffer="256k"
autoFlush="true"
import="Felix.*"
contentType="application/x-ack download"
%>
<% // clear all output to client browser.
out.clear();
// Get my report and process it
Web_Report DownloadBean = new
Web_Report(request.getParameter("hd_storedprocedure"));
Jsp_Html lbean_html = new Jsp_Html();
DownloadBean = lbean_html.downloadReport(DownloadBean);
//write to the output buffer the report contents in HTML format
out.println(DownloadBean.getReportHTML());
%>
Hope this helps
Casey
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>Subject: question regarding MIME type
>Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2000 21:41:43 GMT
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>Hi,All
>I have a scenario in my project: there will be a search result page , it's
>layout should be like this:
>
>
>=====================================================
>Name SS# phone address
>
>name1 ss1 phone1 address1
>name2 ss2 phone2 address2
>
>
> download button here
> ( Text Tab delimited *.txt
> or CSV Comma delimited *.csv)
>
>=====================================================
>
>when this page is generated, we will NOT write those data to a file on the
>server(we don't want create file to the server). so the download button
>here
>is actually not downloading file from server.
>
>Is there better way that user can download a file with the search result as
>content ?
>
>could it possible by setContentType with some special valid MIME type to
>invoke excel or word window with the data showing there? if so, how to?
>
>any one has experience with that?
>and where I can get the documentation on the valid MIME types because I
>only
>know couple MIME type such as text/html, text/plain,
>application/x-filler...
>
>
>thanks a lot.
>
>Helen
>
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