Leave out the Content-Disposition header and you'll get a plain text response. You originally said "so they can save it to their local hard disk." FireFox uses the name of the request as the file to save as when one is not specified in the response -- so that may explain why using File->Save As gives unpredictable results.
Tim -----Original Message----- From: David Kerber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 8:23 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: Writing a text file back to browser from a servlet 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 > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
