Hi all,
This may be a very stupid question, and if so, I apologize in advance... I'm responsible for building the
JSP's in my department, and in our company, the protocol is that the business dept gives me sketches, I build the JSP's, then hand them to the development team who puts the
JAVA code behind them. Well, the business has asked me to do the front end for a File Save As function in a web application.
According to them, the form JSP asks for File Name, File Location and File Type and has a submit button. When the user fills out all this information, the application (remember, this is a browser interface) is supposed to save the data to the user's hard drive in the location that they entered, with the name they gave.
I don't think I've ever seen this before. Is it even possible? In my experince, when saving a file from the Internet, you right click on a hyperlink and get the system Save As dialogue. Can we skip that and create the functionality to save a file directly to a user's hard drive?
I'm thinking that they are confusing the form element for file upload with a download capability. Does anyone know how to do something like this? If I know what the developers will need in order to make a web application download a file it will make everything go faster, but I just can't picture this.
Any help appreciated,
thanks
Kat
