Thank you so much. You don't know how much this helps :) ________________________________
From: Quintin Kerby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 3:50 PM To: MyFaces Discussion Subject: Re: [OT] Storing files outside of the web context Absolutely. You could hard code a file path from inside a backing bean and save the file anywhere on your system if you wanted. Here's some quick code I stole from one of my servlets that reads a file from anywhere (just define your own filename) and sends it to the response: ServletContext sc = getServletContext(); String filename = sc.getRealPath("/images/bcg.gif"); // Get the MIME type of the image String mimeType = sc.getMimeType(filename); if (mimeType == null) { mimeType = "text/plain"; } // Set content type response.setContentType(mimeType); // Set content size File file = new File(filename); response.setContentLength((int) file.length()); //Set headers response.setHeader("Content-disposition", "attachment; filename=" + filename); response.setHeader("Cache-Control", "max-age=600"); // Open the file and output streams FileInputStream in = new FileInputStream(file); OutputStream out = response.getOutputStream(); // Copy the contents of the file to the output stream byte[] buf = new byte[1024]; int count = 0; while ((count = in.read(buf)) >= 0) { out.write(buf, 0, count); } in.close(); out.close(); Quintin Kerby CACI, Inc. "James Reynolds" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 04/07/2006 15:02 Please respond to "MyFaces Discussion" <users@myfaces.apache.org> To "MyFaces Discussion" <users@myfaces.apache.org> cc Subject [OT] Storing files outside of the web context I have a jsf app that includes many .pdf files of contracts. I've just been putting them all in the war before deploying to the production server. There must be a better way to do this. Is it possible to store these files elsewhere on the web server, outside of the context, and still be able to link to them? Thanks
