Reading and Writing MS Word .doc from servlet ...

[Ashok Talluri]

Hi,
ASP running on IIS gives the .doc data to the servlet. In the servlet, am reading using BufferedInputStream and then writing into Servlet outputStream. Iam able to save the document on the web but the file could not be opened with MS WORD. Looks like MS WORD is not binary data but some kind of microsoft proprietary data some OLE related. Any insights in to why i could not have proper data written using java ?
Thanks
Ashok
[ July 23, 2003: Message edited by: Ashok Talluri ]

[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

There's nothing special about .doc files that would prevent your doing this; you would, of course, need to be careful about not altering the data in any way (by adding newline characters, for instance, or appending or prepending any additional data.) If you post some code, maybe we could tell you what you're doing wrong.