Are you expecting the application server that runs your Struts application to serve up these pdf files? If so, this is a no no! Application servers (and servlet containers) are geared to run with lower numbers of more processing intensive threads than a simple http server will.
I would recommend putting your pdf files in a virtual directory that can be served directly by an http server (which can be on a different machine than your application server) even if you don't have your application server sitting behind an http server. Than just use a standard html anchor tag to link to the pdf documents (no need to use the struts tags to do this as they are not relevant to your struts application): <a href="http://myserver.mydomain.com/pdfs/mypdf.pdf";>Read Me!</a> Regards, Thad Smith P.S. This is the recommended way of serving up the images of your application as well. -----Original Message----- From: Brad Balmer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 8:59 AM To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' Subject: Links to external files not in web application Please feel free to scold me if I'm missing something obvious but I can't think of a way to link to files (specifically pdf's) that have already been generated and are sitting in a folder external to any web application. I've tried to create a symbolic link to the directory inside my web application and then link to them as if they were inside the application but my application doesn't see them. Am I missing something or is this not as easy as it seems. Thanks. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
