// I know I'm not supposed to post source code here, but I thought this may
be useful for some.
// BTW I got most of the line below from an example which was posted here a
while ago.
// Sorry.. I forgot who posted it. But many thanks to the guy/girl who post
it in the first place
// Here, I put the HTML output into a StringBuffer and store it in the
session object
// under the name "PrintSummary". Then in the method below, I retrieved the
session
// StringBuffer from the session object to be saved into a file by the
browser
public void print_to_file_method(HttpServletRequest request,
HttpServletResponse response)
throws IOException, ServletException
{
HttpSession session = request.getSession(true);
StringBuffer page = (StringBuffer)session.getValue("PrintSummary");
if(request.getHeader("user-agent").indexOf("MSIE")!= -1)
{
response.setContentType("application/x-my-type");
response.setHeader("Content-Disposition","inline;filename=payroll_summary");
}
else
{
response.setContentType("application/octet-stream");
response.setHeader("Content-Disposition","inline;filename=payroll_summary.ht
m");
}
PrintWriter out;
out = response.getWriter();
try
{
out.println(page.toString());
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
out.println(ex.getMessage());
ex.printStackTrace(out);
}
out.flush();
out.close();
}
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