I originally tried this, but it became a pain because I didn't support 'Range' requests which sent the whole file(in my case 50MB) for each request when someone used a download manager.
A filter on the actual file is much more efficient since Tomcat can serve the file when it needs to and it gets redirected when you want it to. Charlie > -----Original Message----- > From: Turner, John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 12:46 PM > To: 'Tomcat Users List' > Subject: RE: How to hide a download file > > > > Off the top of my head, couldn't you "pipe" together a > FileInputStream and a > ServletOutputStream ? > > Something like: > > - open input stream > - open output stream to browser > - read in file, piping it to output stream > - close file stream > - close servlet stream > > The user would never know where the file is on the server, it could be > anywhere. You'd have to make sure you passed the right > content header to > the browser, so the browser would know what to do with the data it was > getting back. > > Just brainstorming, it may not work. > > John Turner > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Kevin Passey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 12:24 PM > To: Tomcat Users List (E-mail) > Subject: How to hide a download file > > > Hi all, > > I need to pick your brains again. > > I need to publish a site that requires a user to fill in a form before > displaying a download link. > > What I need to do is to hide the file to be downloaded so > that it cannot be > downloaded without the form being filled in - i.e it can only > be downloaded > from a particular generated JSP page. > > Can I do this with Tomcat? > > Thanks in advance. > > > Kevin > > -- > 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]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
