How to save data in html format while user click a save button in jsp page

Question

Hi All,
I have the following requirement
If user click on the Save Button it should display a window which allows the user to select the directory and the data is stored in the Internet Explorer Format.
Could please anybody suggest me how to impletment the above requirment in jsp page.
It's very urgent. Please replay ASAP.
Thanks
Rajeshwari

Answer 1

Analyzing ur ques ...
If user click on the Save Button it should display a window which allows the user to select the directory and the data is stored in the Internet Explorer Format.hmmm..
There is no html object type which supports directory selection for download. There is only an input type="file" which however is related to an upload scenario.
By downloading the file using output stream u can achieve what you want.
You simply need to do the following things ..
a) Write to an output stream
b) Set the content type to "text/html" for your response
Example ....
response.setContentType("text/html");
response.setHeader("Content-disposition",
"attachment; filename" +
"Example.html" );
javax.servlet.ServletOutputStream stream = res.getOutputStream();
StringBuffer text = new StringBuffer(1024);
text.append("some text . . . ");
text.append("more text . . . ");
stream.write(data);
stream.close();