----- Original Message -----
From: "Krishnamurthy, Balaji" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 7:35 PM
Subject: Re: Saving into File
> Chris:
>
> Here is my actual problem...
>
> I have a servlet that accepts some input criteria (e.g. department name),
> execute a query in the database and print the result in tabular format.
>
> Now we want the ability to save the table in excel format. There are few
> ways to do this. One approach is to save the file in the server side (i.e.
> after executing the query, generate the excel file and store them in the
> server. When the user request to save the table as excel, download the
file
> from server) and provide an URL for the same. The issue is we generate too
> many such files, so there are disk space issues associated with it. Not to
> mention the overhead of maintaining additional purge process etc.
you didn't read my suggestion, did you? instead of saving the file on the
server and providing a link to that file to enable the download, directly
print out the file, set the content type so that the user can download the
file.
>
> Thanks
> Balaji
>
cheers!
-mw
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher K. St. John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 11:59 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Saving into File
>
>
> "Krishnamurthy, Balaji" wrote:
> >
> > Is there any way we can save the return value of a
> > Javascript function into a file. For e.g.
> >
>
> This is the 'servlet-interest' list. As you might have
> guessed from the name, it's reserved for questions that
> have something to do with servlets. You question has
> nothing to do with servlets, so it's inappropriate for
> this forumn. It's considered impolite to ask off topic
> questions.
>
> You might check google:
>
> http://www.google.com
>
> it's a search engine that's very good for finding
> answers to programming-related questions. There are
> literally thousands of faq's, sites, mailing lists and
> books dealing with javascript. A google search will
> turn up many of them.
>
> Good luck, and thanks for helping to keep servlet
> interest a clean, fast and efficient place to talk
> about servlets.
>
>
> -cks
>
>
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