how to force sevlet to send a String as attachment to browser?

Question

I want to send a String to user Actually I don't have any file for it. It is only a standard java string and I want user to download it rather than see it on browser.

Most of the example on internet are based on a static file which is not useful for my case.

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered May 25 '12 at 01:59

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austin,i think you need set the response header,following is the code:

getResponse().setHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachment;filename=filename");
getResponse().setDateHeader("Expires", 0);
getResponse().setHeader("Cache-Control" , "no-cache");
getResponse().setHeader("Pragma", "no-cache");

where the getResponse() gets the httpServletResponse.

answered May 25 '12 at 01:59

Leiting

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Then what about sending characters? can I use getWritter().print("blah") ? – Vahid Hashemi May 25 '12 at 02:02
yeah,getResponse().getWriter().print("something") . – Leiting Jul 02 '12 at 06:49

how to force sevlet to send a String as attachment to browser?

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