This worked, though not exactly how I expected. The "save file as..."
box comes up and works, but is there a way of showing the file in the
browser screen as well? Right now, it keeps the previous page displayed
while prompting to save the download. I can live with that if I have
to, but it would be nice if I could show my users the file content in
the browser as well.
Thanks!
Dave
David Kerber wrote:
Thanks, Tim - I'll give that a try later today.
Dave
Tim Lucia wrote:
You could stream it directly to the user, if practical (why write to
a temp
file only to stream that back to the user?) In order to be
recognized by
the browser as text and an attachment, you should:
response.setContentType("text/plain; charset=UTF-8");
response.setHeader("Content-disposition", "attachment;
filename=xxxx.txt");
charset is optional...
Tim
-----Original Message-----
From: David Kerber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday,
October 13, 2006 10:13 PM
To: Tomcat Users List
Subject: Writing a text file back to browser from a servlet
I'm trying to do something that seems like it should be very easy,
but can't get it to work: sending a .txt file back to the user's
browser so they can save it to their local hard disk. I am having no
trouble creating the file and writing it to a temporary place on the
server, but can't figure out what I need to do so the users can save
the result.
Right now, I'm using the following code excerpt:
fReader = new FileReader( fullFileName );
bReader = new BufferedReader( fReader );
oStream = response.getOutputStream();
while (( logString = bReader.readLine()) != null ) {
// I'm sure a println would also work, but this is what I happen
to have right now
oStream.write(( logString + EddRcvr.newLineStr ).getBytes());
}
oStream.close();
bReader.close();
fReader.close();
And it *displays* just fine in the browser window, but when I try to
save it (using firefox 1.5.x), the download windows says it completed
successfully, but the file is never there when I try to look at it.
Any suggestions as to what I'm missing?
TIA!
Dave
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