RE: Forward after returning content?

2004-05-11 Thread Robert Taylor
John Moore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 1:57 PM > To: Struts Users Mailing List > Subject: Re: Forward after returning content? > > > John Moore wrote: > > > Neat! Yes, this is the way. Thanks Niall and Robert too. > > > I just recalled o

Re: Forward after returning content?

2004-05-11 Thread John Moore
John Moore wrote: Neat! Yes, this is the way. Thanks Niall and Robert too. I just recalled one of the reasons why I wanted to do it the way I did. In my original version, where I actually handle the file download, I record in a database what has been downloaded by whom and when, which I can do

Re: Forward after returning content?

2004-05-11 Thread John Moore
Niall Pemberton wrote: I don't believe you can (although I would be interested if there was a way). How about doing it the other way round, forward to your page with the instructions on and use the meta refresh tag to redirect to your download action. Something like this: Download Page

Re: Forward after returning content?

2004-05-11 Thread Niall Pemberton
I don't believe you can (although I would be interested if there was a way). How about doing it the other way round, forward to your page with the instructions on and use the meta refresh tag to redirect to your download action. Something like this: Download Page If do

RE: Forward after returning content?

2004-05-11 Thread Robert Taylor
John, we have a similar process where by we allow a customer to download a file. Instead of the Struts handling the actual downloading, we direct the user to the informational page for the file. That page contains either javascript or a meta-refresh tag which redirects the request to the file to be