Re: store info on client side flat file

[Uday Bhosle]

Title: RE: store info on client side flat file

Sundram,

To my knowledge it is not possible for security reason..

Uday Bhosle
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Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 1999 10:58 AM
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Subject: Re: store info on client side flat file

Hi,

Actually, my requirement boils down to writing some information in the form of a flat text file in the client machine. Can someone tell me how to write into a file on the client machine from a servlet ?

Thanks,
Mohan

Maintaining client persistence between requests is (I think) a function
of the web server you are using.  If you absolutely must be able to
handle clients who have their cookies turned off, I can think of a few
ways:

1) Have your servlet write out a bunch of hidden form elements with the
values you need, then put handlers in the receiving pages to read them.

2)  Have your servlet encode ALL href links with name/value pairs (ie:
<A HREF='nextpage.html?pref=something&who=something+else'>
(make sure you escape special characters like spaces)

3)  Not really an entirely different option, but use either of the first
two to store a unique key which you create for the client when they log
in, and then write info to this record in a database.  This has the
advantage of being persistent as long as you need it (you could put in a
time as well, and decide when they've timed out) but obviously, you need
a db.

HTH