sendRedirect Question

[Scott Russel]

Hi all,
Say all that I could get back from a bean was a BufferedInputStream. This stream contains a PDF file.
Now I want to "stream" the contents of the BufferedInputSteam to the browser - hence - opening the PDF file.
Sounds strange but is all I have to work with right now.
Unfortunately I can NOT just give the URL to the PDF file as I need to hide it from the browser/user.
Please help if possible and thanks in advance!
Scott

[Frank Carver]

It's easy enough to write a methjod to copy from one stream to another:

public static void copyStream(BufferedInputStream in, BufferedOutputStream out)
 throws IOException
{
  for (int c = in.read(); c != -1; c = in.read())
  {
    out.write((byte)c);
  }
  out.flush();
}

You just need to make sure you set the appropriate content type, then copy the input stream to the response.getOutputStream() using the above and finally close the streams.

[Scott Russel]

Thanks a lot Frank! I'll give a try.

[Scott Russel]

Well, I did it - sort of...
I can get the PDF to the browser now but I think the CONTEXT-TYPE is wrong because it looks like text.
Here is how I thought you should set CONTEXT-TYPE for the response object, is this correct?

  response.setHeader("CONTEXT-TYPE", "APPLICATION/PDF");

Thanks in advance.
[This message has been edited by Scott Russel (edited December 07, 2000).]

[maha anna]

Scott,
Slightly modify the header name like this. It will work. I used this code to diplay a report in Excel format.
regds
maha anna

     response.setContentType("application/vnd.ms-excel"); 

[Scott Russel]

maha - thank you very much!
It worked and you are wonderful! Java Ranch is the best!
Scotty

[Scott Russel]

Thank you too Frank! You guys are the coolest!