2013/3/25 Thad Humphries <thad.humphr...@gmail.com>: > I have a web-app that uses a servlet for downloading files from a > repository--PDF, Office, images, zip, etc. It works with desktop > browsers--IE, Firefox, Chrome, and Safari--on their various platforms. It > also works fine with Firefox from Android (2.3 and 4.x tested). However > when I try with Android's default WebKit browser, the servlet fails > immediately with org.apache.catalina.connector.ClientAbortException (so > says the stderr log).
1. Is this issue specific to some kind of files, or it occurs with all of them? 2. If client aborts a connection, there is nothing much a server can do. It is issue in your web browser. > The servlet is sending proper headers, including the correct MIME type, > Content-Disposition attachment, file size, etc. I even took to adding the > file's name as the last GET parameter. No dice. 3. Maybe the browser does not like "Content-Disposition attachment"? Maybe it cannot save the file? 4. Does it depend on file size? How the file is served? (What connector implementation are you using? Do you use compression, do you use sendfile?) > Safari on iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch also fail. Although I don't have one > with me at this moment to test, I suspect their failure is also caused by a > ClientAbortException: Safari is also WebKit and *I've Google'd numerous > complaints about this exception when using mobile WebKit browsers*. While I > can tell Android users to try Firefox, there is no Firefox for iPhone. > > I'm expecting a file to open in a local viewer app, like Acrobat Reader, > QuickOffice, Pages, etc. I can open files in these apps via Firefox, an > email client, or via the WebKit browser when viewing a directory listing in > my public_html directories and similar locations. > > I suspect this is a problem with mobile WebKit, and that circumventing the > abort might be a "bad thing" even if it's possible. However I thought I'd > inquire here if there is a Tomcat way around it. If not, it seems my > alternatives are (1) use Java Mail to mail the user the file, since mail > apps open their attachments; and (2) write iOS and Android apps file query > and downloading. Neither prospect thrills me. > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
