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Opening a zip file from JSP page

 
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Hi All,

I am creating a zip file and trying to open the zip file from JSP page. The JSP page prompts the user to OPEN/SAVE/CANCEL, but does not open the zip file, however the zip is created in the temporary folder.



Could someone help me in pointing the missing steps.

Thanks in advance for your help.

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JSP are designed to send characters to make a HTML page.

Zip files are NOT character files. Your page is actually sending some starting characters which are NOT in the zip format.

Binary files should be served by a servlet - as has been repeated on this forum many many times before.

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Thanks,

I am using response.getOutPutStream().

But I am getting the message below



Any thoughts.
 
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From a JSP or from a Servlet?

As has already been pointed out, using a JSP for this purpose is a phenomenally poor choice.
 
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From JSP .

Thanks,
Ananth Ram
 
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First step: refactor to a servlet.
 
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Thanks,

I am planning to move the code on the Struts framework, so I believe the code will be in Action class for the JSP. Please correct me if I am wrong.

 
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It is wrong to be thinking of a JSP at all. JSPs are for generating text like HTML. Not Zip. Not Images. Not anything else binary.
 
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If you are talking about Struts 1 there is already a Action class you can use
http://wiki.apache.org/struts/StrutsFileDownload

And as Bear Bibeault said it has nothing to do with JSP since you do not use jsp when downloading files.
 
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Thanks all,

The link is really useful to implement the download file.

Also on the pointers to use the Servlet instead of JSP.

Same code implemented using Servlet works fine.

Ananth Ram
 
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