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Having problem in exporting data while using "Display Tag" from sourceforge.net

Hi I am trying to use display tag in my JSP file. The tag shows the data perfectly fine. But when I click on the export options to export the data in excel or pdf it opens the appropriate application but no data is transferred. I have also included the filter in my web.xml file but still it is not working.

borislavmarkov

specify the header field Content-Length.
Sometimes Internet Explorer makes the query to your URL twice, take any actions if you depend on that.

Your servlet that returns data should look like:

ServletContext ctx = this.getServletContext();
mime = ctx.getMimeType(fileName);
aResponse.setContentType(mime);
OutputStream out = aResponse.getOutputStream();
aResponse.setContentLength( (int)lengthOfFile );
aResponse.setHeader("Pragma", "no-cache"); //HTTP 1.0
aResponse.setDateHeader("Expires", 1); //prevents caching at the proxy server
aResponse.setHeader("Cache-Control", "max-age=0");

//WRITE DATA
out.write(buf,0,bytes);
....

out.flush();

royalcyber

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I am actually using pre-made "display tag" from sourceforge.net.
I insatalled the .jar files and .tld files as needed and am just passing an arraylist to these tag in JSP and they display
the daata in a table and give options such as sorting or export data to excel, xml etc.

I am not sure how to check teh code for this tag

Please help

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borislavmarkov

Anyway what is the URL on this link that is problematic, can you copy paste it so we can analyze it?

Having problem in exporting data while using &quot;Display Tag&quot; from sourceforge.net

Having problem in exporting data while using "Display Tag" from sourceforge.net