I'm going to have to inevitably add it to my site soon, I was going to approach it the same way, but with a servlet isn't it possible to pipe a file by setting the response mime type and streaming it out as a PDF or EXE. Of course IE does it's own thing no matter the mime type.
-----Original Message----- From: Alex Short [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 11:36 AM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: How to hide a download file Certainly not the most elegant solution but you could keep the real file in a unreachable location, and upon submitting it copy's the file to a cookie_date_time_filename.ext and has them download that. Then you run a cleaner script to erase these temp files after 24 hours. Alex > Hi all, > > I need to pick your brains again. > > I need to publish a site that requires a user to fill in a form before > displaying a download link. > > What I need to do is to hide the file to be downloaded so that it cannot be > downloaded without the form being filled in - i.e it can only be downloaded > from a particular generated JSP page. > > Can I do this with Tomcat? > > Thanks in advance. > > > Kevin > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.373 / Virus Database: 208 - Release Date: 7/1/2002 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.373 / Virus Database: 208 - Release Date: 7/1/2002 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
