Thank you to everyone. I will investigate further. Elisabeth
-----Original Message----- From: Nicolas Schwartz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: lunes, 05 de junio de 2006 10:48 To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: A way to know if file download has ended > This is one of those issues that just can't be solved > with simple HTTP and HTML. There isn't a response > sent to the server to tell it every single download > was successful (or at least not sent back to the web > application ... TCP makes sure the last bytes get to > the other side successfully or an error occurs, but > the applications on the server side can't tell this or > at least I don't know how). Then to make the > situation more difficult there is no defined event for > tying into the HTTP process for when a certain > download has occurred successfully. So, one has to > use a download manager of some kind to more easily > manage things like this. This could be a signed java > applet or shockwave file or a COM object (not cross > platform so I wouldn't recommend that, but you might > think it's ok if you force IE and windows). One could > more easily tell if an upload had finished because you > at least have a defined form element you can access > through DOM, get the name, and then monitor the upload > progress. > > Wade > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hi, I agree with Wade about not knowing in Tomcat whether download succeeded or not. I tried many code and discussed about it in the forum and came to the conclusion it is not possible. (subject was "Last Byte Detection", conclusion was: HTTP is not the good level to detect that.) Good luck, Nicolas --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
