Devious. I like it.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Zalewski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "POI Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 11:58 AM Subject: RE: POI and JSP > Hehe. To get around it with a JSP, just arange to take a parameter that ends > in > the string ".xls". > > http://some.such.com/myServlet?myRealParam=123&billgates=dummy.xls > > Then just ignore the dummy parameter in the JSP. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Andrew C. Oliver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 9:30 PM > To: POI Users List > Subject: Re: POI and JSP > > > Ferruccio Spagna wrote: > > >>Personally I think JSPs are TOTALLY inappropriate for (well just about > >>everything other than demonstrating how to program non object oriented > >>code) binary output. I would highly recommend you use a servlet. > >> > >> > > > >I can agree with you. Nevertheless I tried to write a clean JSP page with > >some POI code and the Excel file was finally created and avalaible via a > >link on the same page. Why not? The only problem is now that IExplorer > >doesn't open Excel automatically (Netscape does), or can I do something for > >this? I tried to stream to the client an xls from a servlet that specifies > >the content-type without having better result. > > > > > Some versions of IE ignore the content-type and use the file extension. > With a servlet you can work around this by mapping a handler. You can > probably do this with a JSP somehow or other, but I'm not sure how. > > -Andy > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
