For a POST request, have the servlet/script do a redirect to your download
file.
Alon
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lance Lavandowska [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, September 10, 1999 7:09 AM
> Subject: Re: File Download Naming
>
>
> I've only tried this with perl, but I would imagine the same will work
> with servlets:
>
> call the servlet using additional PathInfo equal to the
> filename you want.
> If you are using a link to get to FileServlet, then you can
> dynamically
> set the link url however you wish.
>
> Ex: http://www.domain.com/servlet/FileServlet/file09_10_99.zip
>
> Most browsers will use the "filename" at the end of the url
> as the default
> filename for a download.
>
> Likewise, using a form GET, you can set the target to the example url
> above.
> If you are using a form POST, I don't have any ideas.
>
> Lance Lavandowska
> Software Engineer
> http://www.AgDomain.Com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Maciej Dybala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Friday, September 10, 1999 4:55 AM
>
>
> >Hello Everybody ,
> > I have got a little problem:
> > - having a Servlet(e.g. FileServlet) which is
> supposed to send
> binary files(e.g. *.zip files)
> > - how to perform an opperetion that its
> result will be a
> saved file on the client side
> > which name will be File01.zip and not
> FileServlet.zip)
> > - of course we can use alias but what we can
> do if the
> name of the file
> > should dynamically change depanding on
> the current
> date and time?
> > Any help will be appreciated!
> >Maciej Dybala
> >
> >
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