Re: File Download

From:

"Oliver Wong" <owong@castortech.com>

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comp.lang.java.programmer

Date:

Wed, 8 Nov 2006 17:57:37 -0500

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"Simon Brooke" <simon@jasmine.org.uk> wrote in message
news:68j924-d7d.ln1@gododdin.internal.jasmine.org.uk...

in message <1163004506.642738.87210@e3g2000cwe.googlegroups.com>, Krish
('krishnendu.dey@gmail.com') wrote:

I am new to JSP and here stuck with a problem.....need help

Can anyone tell me how can i provide a download option in JSP for users
for a file which can be in any directories.......

Just link to the file, as you would in HTTP. There's nothing special or
clever you need do.

This will only work if the file is in a directory which is being served
by the webserver. E.g. if you want to provide download to a file like
"C:\myFile.zip", you'll probably instead need to provide a link to a page
whose sole task is to read arbitrary files on the file system, and remit
their contents, e.g. <a
href="./downloader.jsp?link=C:\myFile.zip">Download</a>. But then you'd
probably want to implement some security so that people couldn't use that
page to download, for example, a list of username and passwords from your
server.

- Oliver