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JSP/Servlet redirect problem...
sendRedirect() & forward() will both work. Redirect will cause an extra round trip call. idarke: If you want to send 1 file instead of 3, I imagine you can zip it up on the fly & then call forward(). palbano: Writing directly to ServletOutputStream (thanks idarke, I totally forgot I can do... -
JSP/Servlet redirect problem...
Excellent! This is exactly what I wanted. Thank you! I was doing: response.sendRedirect(exeFile); instead of writing the file contents directly to the response output stream as in your example. Naturally my redirect causes the browser to make a new request to the server for that file... -
JSP/Servlet redirect problem...
Oops I left out the most important part of the question: response.sendRedirect(location) works as long as the temp file is somewhere under my /context, eg https://hostname/myapp/temp/tempfile.zip However, for security reasons I rather generate the temp files in either a) java.io.tmpdir, (eg... -
JSP/Servlet redirect problem...
Hi all, I am trying to implement the exact same thing as above. I have a JSP that submits a query & a Servlet that creates a temp CSV file. My question is, how do I send this back to the return view & if possible, automatically popup a SaveAs Dialog? Code samples will be greatly appreciated...
