Re: displaying an image from outside the webapps directory

[Kimberly Begley <ki...@gmail.com>]

Great - got it working!
Thanks so much for that again!
Kimberly

On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 12:07 AM, Christopher Schultz <
chris@christopherschultz.net> wrote:

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> Kimberly,
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> Kimberly Begley wrote:
> | I was hoping to use the jsp:include tag to include the snippet (no html
> or
> | body tags) - I tried with the same code that Chris sent to open a jpeg -
> | thinking it might be the same solution for the html but have gotten an
> | internal error at the jsp include line.
>
> The problem is that JSPs use HttpServletResponse.getWriter (because JSPs
> are used to produce text output) while the servlet you write uses
> HttpServletRequest.getOutputStream. The two are incompatible for the
> same request, and getWriter has already been called, to getOutputStream
> fails.
>
> You have a couple of options:
>
> * Write another version of OpenFile called OpenTextFile or whatever
> * Modify OpenFile to try getOutputStream first, then getWriter
> * Put a special flag in the request, and have OpenFile detect that flag
> ~  to determine whether getWriter or getOutputStream should be called
>
> If you want to use Writers instead of Streams, you should probably open
> your file using a Reader instead of a Stream as well.
>
> Hope that helps,
> - -chris
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Kimberly Begley