asked on 3/26/2004

Servlet, how to download file?

I have generate an excel file from my servlet, under my document root's download directory, but how do I prompt the IE / user to save this xls file when they click on the link which will launch my servlet call. Please help. Thanks !

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jmarrara

8/5/2004

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3/26/2004

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Mayank S

3/26/2004

Does your Servlet display something on the browser? You can have a hyper-link to the excel-file there. When the user clicks on it, it will prompt for download.

clo1

3/27/2004

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Thanks CEHJ, it work perfectly in my OWN development environemnt, which is WinXP + Tomcat 5.0. But once I have uploaded to my production server (RedHat 9.0 + Tomcat 4.1.27), it does not success anymore. Even I have preset the filename for it, it doesn't allow me to download it. Any ideas? Please help. Thanks a lot !

CEHJ

3/27/2004

What IS happening exactly?

clo1

3/28/2004

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It can prompt to save the file, but it is not the filename I preset from the servlet, it just prompt out another html page's name. And once I click on it, it gives me error message said it cannot be download, etc.... Please help. Thanks !

CEHJ

3/28/2004

Have you followed the example in that article exactly?

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3/28/2004

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Mayank S

3/28/2004

>> it is not the filename I preset from the servlet

What file-name does it show and what file-name do you give in the Servlet? I guess it should show the original file-name.

Mayank S

4/19/2004

Ok with me.

jmarrara

8/5/2004

It worked fine to me.