Unable to forward to anything but a jsp

[Darren Hall <dh...@utrs.com>]

I'm having two issues -

1)       I cannot forward (or map) to an individual file - only to a path.
I'd like to find a way to be able to forward to a specific file (html, pdf,
etc.). Is this a configuration issue?

2)       When I execute a forward action in struts config, I can only
forward to a jsp file and have it display successfully. I can't forward to
any other type of file (html, pdf, etc.)

 

I need to be able to have the user click a link to a pdf file and have the
file display in a new browser. Unfortunately, all requests to my domain go
through my struts application, so I can't simply do this through apache
httpd server - and the pdfs need to exist in my application's domain so they
will be crawled by our search functionality and show up in search results.
I'm not sure how I can accomplish clicking a link and displaying a pdf file
directly given the above two constraints.

I'm using struts 1.2.9 apache 2.2 and tomcat 5.5.  Can someone please tell
me what I'm doing wrong and point me towards a solution?

 

Thanks,

 

Darren

Re: Unable to forward to anything but a jsp

[Laurie Harper <la...@holoweb.net>]

Maybe this will help:

http://wiki.apache.org/struts/StrutsFileDownload

L.

Darren Hall wrote:
> I'm having two issues -
> 
> 1)       I cannot forward (or map) to an individual file - only to a path.
> I'd like to find a way to be able to forward to a specific file (html, pdf,
> etc.). Is this a configuration issue?
> 
> 2)       When I execute a forward action in struts config, I can only
> forward to a jsp file and have it display successfully. I can't forward to
> any other type of file (html, pdf, etc.)
> 
>  
> 
> I need to be able to have the user click a link to a pdf file and have the
> file display in a new browser. Unfortunately, all requests to my domain go
> through my struts application, so I can't simply do this through apache
> httpd server - and the pdfs need to exist in my application's domain so they
> will be crawled by our search functionality and show up in search results.
> I'm not sure how I can accomplish clicking a link and displaying a pdf file
> directly given the above two constraints.
> 
> I'm using struts 1.2.9 apache 2.2 and tomcat 5.5.  Can someone please tell
> me what I'm doing wrong and point me towards a solution?
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>  
> 
> Darren
> 
> 


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