Hi in ur code use this
PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(response.getOutputStream());
instead of
ServletOutputStream out = response.getOutputStream();
thx
pradeep
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>Subject: File downloading...
>Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 16:08:57 +0100
>
>Hello all y'all,
>
>i want to write a servlet that enables the user to download a file; i'm
>using the following code to do this but i get an IllegalStateException
>while
>executing it. Any ideas what might be wrong?
>
>The code fragment:
>
>public void service(..) ... {
>
> String filename = request.getParameter("file");
> FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(filename);
> BufferedInputStream bis = new BufferedInputStream(fis);
> ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
> int ch;
> while ((ch = bis.read()) != -1) {
> baos.write(ch);
> }
> byte buffer[] = baos.toByteArray();
> response.setContentType("application/octet-stream");
> response.setHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachment;filename=" +
>filename);
> ServletOutputStream out = response.getOutputStream();
> out.write(buffer);
>}
>
>Thanks in advance for your ideas.
>
>Michael Weller
>
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