Re: Triggering download in GWT via RPC

2010-05-28 Thread andreas
Thanks again for the response, Sris response already answered my question: it just can not be done with rpc; that's it. On 28 Mai, 16:28, Jeff Chimene wrote: > Hi Andreas: > > You can certainly send the two files to the server via GWTUpload. As Sri Sorry Jeff, never wanted to send files to the s

Re: Triggering download in GWT via RPC

2010-05-28 Thread Jeff Chimene
Hi Andreas: You can certainly send the two files to the server via GWTUpload. As Sri observed, the user must EXPLICITLY REQUEST THAT ACTION. Your browser app cannot do that on behalf of the user. You can receive "stuff" in the browser from the server. If it's a custom file structure, you'll have

Re: Triggering download in GWT via RPC

2010-05-28 Thread andreas
So when I get it right, it is a "huge" difference if the request is issued sort of "by hand" using browser mechanisms like Links or programmatic "paste of URLs" by opening a new browser window or IFrame with a given URL COMPARED TO programmatic issued requests using GWT rpc and/or RequestBuilder. I

Re: Triggering download in GWT via RPC

2010-05-28 Thread andreas
The goal is to download files to be stored by the user on disk. The context application is a graphical editor which allows export of a document in two formats. At the moment these are txt and ppt files. They are generated separately so there is no problem with conflicting MIME types or similar. By

Re: Triggering download in GWT via RPC

2010-05-27 Thread Sripathi Krishnan
> > The point I do not get about this is why the browser does not react to the > content disposition by downloading the file and instead passing the > response back to the ajax-world... ... I read a lot about that doing > what i would like to do is not possible but no one really said why. Browse

Re: Triggering download in GWT via RPC

2010-05-27 Thread Jeff Chimene
Hi Andreas: It's quite possible to "... trigger a download via GWT..." You don't say what MIME type you're wanting. For example, I trigger a download of PDF document. GWT code cannot handle that, so the trigger is a GWT write to an IFrame URL. The browser then renders the PDF in that frame. Perha