Serving text files.

[jo90]

Hi,

If I have a text file which contains information I wish to publish on a web server, is JSP a good method of doing this? If so, does anyone have any links which would assist me in this?

thanks in advance.
J.

 

[sedj]

I guess you could do it in JSP if you wanted to, but if it is just static text that you want to serve up, then I don't belive there is any real need - given that the text files are in the correct directories, would it not be easier to simply use HTML, or even more simply - most browsers will quite happily open text files given the correct path....eg, check out

http://www.google.com/robots.txt

- this is a text file which web crawlers and robots use to see what data may and may not be accessed at that particular site

Ben

 

[jo90]

Thanks Ben,

I originally thought of working with just text files & serving them through iplanet ( my web server ), however I thinnk i need to search the file through a browser - read sections of the file etc. as opposed to the entire thing.... any ideas on how to do this / any source code?

Thanks in advance....