It is rather easy, I usually have a download servlet for this which generates the appropriate html code, I do not have the code handy currently but you basically set the header mimetype to either your filetype or application/octed stream, then pass down the content length (this is important because otherwise our all beloved IE has some problems on certain filetypes) and then you basically pass the stream as content down as embedded binary data.
You also can achieve that with a phaselistener if you feel uneasy to do it over a separate servlet. All you then have to do is to link to the servlet or phase listener with a linke and a target="_new" Werner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have nearly the same problem: > > I have the link of a sample file (pdf, doc or something else) in the database. > Now the user should have the possibility to open this file via a > CommandButton or CommandLink > > I'm not quite sure, how I can do this? > Thx for help >
