Absolutely. You have access to all of the response object methods you would in a servlet to do this with.
Set the correct content type and content length headers and spit it to the outputstream. Return a null findForward. I've done this with pdf files, (and this week I asked on this list about img tags. Was even easier: It worked the same way, but with none of the header setting apparently. Least I hope so :-). In fact, the file doesn't even need to be accessible via a browser accessible URL. If the application can read it, that's all you need. > -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Elliott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2004 10:26 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Making a file available? > > > I have an application which gathers information about internal > processes. Some of this information is in the form of a text file, an > Excel file, a PDF file, etc. > > What I need to be able to do is to make a URL available to users which > will provide a requested file to a user; that is, if the URL > refers to a > PDF file then when a user makes that request, his browser will detect > that the request was for a PDF file and properly render it in xpdf or > acrobat or whatever. > > For example, if a user entered the url > > http://www.blip.org/getFile.do?name=xyz.pdf > > the result would be his browser properly displaying the contents of > xyz.pdf. > > Is this even possible? If so, how would I go about doing it? We can > assume that the server knows where to find any named file and > furthermore that it knows the MIME type of the file (in this case > application/x-pdf). > > Any ideas? > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
