Problem with ForwardTag in Logic Tag Library!!!!

[jsmall]

I have a Struts application and am running into a problem using the <logic:forward> tag in the application.

I use "welcome" jsp files that do nothing but immediately forward to a Struts action (a very common practice). This has been great, until now.

One of the recent actions I wrote has as its sole purpose the responsibility of reading a file of a particular type from another server and returning it to the requestor.

I successfully read the file in my action and write it to the response object for delivery to the requestor. That part works fine. The problem is that the <logic:forward> tag seems to have set up a state (lost session?) that prevents me returning the file with the specified mime-type and name. The file is downloaded using the name of the requesting URI and the mime-type blank instead of the mime-type and name I've set. If I use the <html:link forward> tag, however it works great. But it requires user intervention (not good!).

Here's some code displaying what I'm attempting to do:

<!-- download.jsp -->

<link:forward name="download">

A request of "

http://localhost:8080/app/download.do"

attempts to download a file by the name of the above URI with unknown filetype.

** Whereas...

<!-- download.jsp -->

<html:link forward="download">Download</html:link>

** Works great!

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks in advance!!!!

Jeff Small