Further to this, it seems that it only happens when IE6 is the browser. Firefox downloads the file properly and allows one to save it. IE6, OTOH, prompts to save and when it actually tries to download, I guess the connection has been closed.
Help greatly appreciated. -- Richi Plana > -----Original Message----- > From: Plana, Richard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 10:30 AM > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: Mod_proxy_ajp and App Returing Generic Files For Download > > Hi, > > We're wanting a servlet request to return a generic file for download. > In Java, we use the following code: > > public ActionForward myAction(ActionMapping mapping, > ActionForm form, > HttpServletRequest request, > HttpServletResponse response) > throws Exception { ... > response.setContentType("application/download"); > response.setHeader("Content-Disposition", > "attachment;filename=\"" + "myfilename" + "\""); > response.setContentLength(ret.length()); > > PrintWriter writer = response.getWriter(); > writer.write(ret); > writer.flush(); > ... > return null; > } > > This would work with Tomcat's HTTP interface as well as > mod_jk, but with mod_proxy_ajp, we get an "Error downloading > page" from the browser and the following in the logs: > > [Tue Jul 15 16:47:35 2008] [debug] mod_proxy_ajp.c(239): proxy: > APR_BUCKET_IS_EOS > [Tue Jul 15 16:47:35 2008] [debug] mod_proxy_ajp.c(244): > proxy: data to read (max 8186 at 4) [Tue Jul 15 16:47:35 > 2008] [debug] mod_proxy_ajp.c(259): proxy: got 0 bytes of > data [Tue Jul 15 16:47:35 2008] [debug] ajp_header.c(652): > ajp_read_header: > ajp_ilink_received 04 > [Tue Jul 15 16:47:35 2008] [debug] ajp_header.c(662): ajp_parse_type: > got 04 > [Tue Jul 15 16:47:35 2008] [debug] ajp_header.c(491): > ajp_unmarshal_response: status = 200 > [Tue Jul 15 16:47:35 2008] [debug] ajp_header.c(502): > ajp_unmarshal_response: Number of headers is = 6 [Tue Jul 15 > 16:47:35 2008] [debug] ajp_header.c(564): > ajp_unmarshal_response: Header[0] [Pragma] = [No-cache] [Tue > Jul 15 16:47:35 2008] [debug] ajp_header.c(564): > ajp_unmarshal_response: Header[1] [Cache-Control] = > [no-cache] [Tue Jul 15 16:47:35 2008] [debug] ajp_header.c(564): > ajp_unmarshal_response: Header[2] [Expires] = [Thu, 01 Jan > 1970 00:00:00 GMT] [Tue Jul 15 16:47:35 2008] [debug] > ajp_header.c(564): > ajp_unmarshal_response: Header[3] [Content-Disposition] = > [attachment;filename="myfilename"] > [Tue Jul 15 16:47:35 2008] [debug] ajp_header.c(564): > ajp_unmarshal_response: Header[4] [Content-Type] = > [application/download;charset=ISO-8859-1] > [Tue Jul 15 16:47:35 2008] [debug] ajp_header.c(574): > ajp_unmarshal_response: ap_set_content_type done [Tue Jul 15 > 16:47:35 2008] [debug] ajp_header.c(564): > ajp_unmarshal_response: Header[5] [Content-Length] = [67] > [Tue Jul 15 16:47:35 2008] [debug] ajp_header.c(652): ajp_read_header: > ajp_ilink_received 03 > [Tue Jul 15 16:47:35 2008] [debug] ajp_header.c(662): ajp_parse_type: > got 03 > [Tue Jul 15 16:47:35 2008] [debug] ajp_header.c(652): ajp_read_header: > ajp_ilink_received 05 > [Tue Jul 15 16:47:35 2008] [debug] ajp_header.c(662): ajp_parse_type: > got 05 > [Tue Jul 15 16:47:35 2008] [debug] mod_proxy_ajp.c(498): > proxy: got response from 10.0.0.1:8009 (server1) [Tue Jul 15 > 16:47:35 2008] [debug] proxy_util.c(2062): proxy: AJP: has > released connection for (server1) > > Bug? We doing something mod_ajp doesn't like? > -- > > Richi Plana > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]
