Streaming of files (doc/pdf/xls)

Question

hi,
          i try to stream a file like this:
          FileInputStream fileIn = new FileInputStream("d:\\test.doc");
          int length = fileIn.available();
          byte[] b = new byte[length];
          fileIn.read(b, 0, length);
          ServletOutputStream op = response.getOutputStream();
          response.setContentType("application/msword");
          op.write(b, 0, length);
          when I do this in WLS 5.1 SP5 ....MS-Word do open...BUT...
          there are lots of weird characters in the document....!!!
          (the same problem for pdf:s)
          Browser used is IE5.0
          (the code above works fine in another appserver i've tested)
          I'm I missing some HTTP-headers ???
          thanks for any suggestions!
          regards,
          /goran knutas
          

Answer 1

thanks for your comment,
          but the code-snippet works fine in Orion Webapp server...
          but NOT in WLS 5.1 sp5...that is a bit strange....
          I dont think it has something to do with MS-Word as such...
          though i have noticed that WLS starts every processed page with a lot of
          empty rows..wich is sent to the cliennt...that could be interpreted
          by the Application/Word to be something else...??? or ???
          /goran
          Joe Trung <[email protected]> skrev i
          diskussionsgruppsmeddelandet:[email protected]...
          >
          > Hi Goran,
          >
          > Your codes look great but they won't work due to the internal processing
          of word processors (Adobe or MS winword). The browser depends on
          informations to invoke or to execute the content. Why so complicated? If you
          save a MS doc as a webpage you may see complicated things you couldn't
          imagine. Try the simple way what I did:
          >
          > ejb-2_0-pd2-spec
          >
          > workshop
          >
          > You get on the browser 2 underlined sentences: ejb-2_0-pd2-spec and
          workshop. If you click one of them you get what you expected.
          >
          > Joe
          >
          > "Goran Knutas" <[email protected]> wrote:
          > >hi,
          > >
          > >i try to stream a file like this:
          > >
          > > FileInputStream fileIn = new FileInputStream("d:\\test.doc");
          > > int length = fileIn.available();
          > > byte[] b = new byte[length];
          > > fileIn.read(b, 0, length);
          > > ServletOutputStream op = response.getOutputStream();
          > > response.setContentType("application/msword");
          > > op.write(b, 0, length);
          > >
          > >when I do this in WLS 5.1 SP5 ....MS-Word do open...BUT...
          > >there are lots of weird characters in the document....!!!
          > >(the same problem for pdf:s)
          > >Browser used is IE5.0
          > >
          > >(the code above works fine in another appserver i've tested)
          > >
          > >I'm I missing some HTTP-headers ???
          > >thanks for any suggestions!
          > >
          > >regards,
          > >/goran knutas
          > >
          > >
          >