There's one important thing to do, too : don't forget to set the mime-type, else it will be text/plain or text/html, and your browser will display your byte stream as text.... ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 6:40 PM Subject: Re: What is the best way to display pictures from a database usin g Struts
> It surely does help, I shall put it to work now! > > Cheers > > Tony > > Jesse Alexander (KABS 11) wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > from an Action's perform() you can do two things: > > a) do something (usefull) and return an ActionForward-object > > b) do somthing (usefull), write the desired output (html, pdf-stream, > > image-bytes,...) to the response-objects output (just like standard > > servlet-programming!) and return a NULL-object (return null) > > in this case you want to use b). Important is returning null to indicate > > that the Action did complete the processing. Else ActionServlet will pass > > on to the returned ActionForward-object... > > > > hope this helps > > Alexander Jesse > > > > > > -- > 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]>
