Servlet I/O – sending a file to the browser

[timesign]

Hi,
I have a doPost method in a servlet. I would like at the end of the method to return a Text file from the hard drive of the server to the user so he can save it.

The text I would like to return is treated in the code as a long string - so if you can tell me how to deliver it to the user as a text file without writing the string to the hard drive of the server, that would be even better.

I presume I want a open | save | cancel, dialog box to appear on the web page.

Thanks,
Jonathan

 

[timesign]

for all those of you who may be curious how to do it the trick is to set the content type to "application/my app"