There is a problem while calling the method

[gurusamy sengodan]

Hi,
I want to use the following method at the same time.
is it possible?
1)response.getWriter();
2)response.getOutputStream();

I have written two method.
In first method, i am using response.getWriter();
In the second method, i am using response.getOutputStream();
Why because, in one place i have to handle bytes
in another place i have to handle characters.
But while calling the method. i got the exception.
How to handle these things.

[kishore kovil]

hi,
i think we cannot use both printwriter and stream objects both at the same time

[Ben Souther]

Kishore is correct.

You can only send back one response per request and that response can not be a mixture of binary and textual data.

Maybe if you describe what you're tryning to do, someone can suggest an alternative.

[Alex Sotin]

I don't know exactly why do you need 2 responses for 1 request, but I think you can put one of your responses in the http header (if you use it). Please tell us more detailed what are you doing