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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