RE: Dowloading Vcard from Web Page

I am not sure about existence java script which could do this.

But following method is tested by me:

Write a servlet with its doPost method having following:

//get outputstream
OutputStream outputStream = response.getOutputStream();

//set MIME type for http header, extension vcf //content type text/plain
response.setContentType("text/plain");
String fileName = "attachment; filename="myvcard.vcf";
response.setHeader("content-disposition",fileName);
        
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//write the vcard string to the outputstream
outputStream.write(vcardString); outputStream.close();

In your web page, <a href="servlet-path-and-name">Download Vcard</a>
(Remember to configure the web.xml for the servlet class name.)

Regards
Ajay Naphade
Project Leader - R&D
[email protected]

-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Mandell [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 5:04 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Dowloading Vcard from Web Page

Thanks, but how do you do that? Are the any stock scripts out there that 
do it?

Matthew

Ajay Naphade wrote:

>Hi,
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>Straight href will do but you should call a java program, which will set
the
>header "Content-disposition" and write the file to output stream.
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>Regards,
>Ajay Naphade
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
>Behalf Of Matthew Mandell
>Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 7:00 PM
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: Dowloading Vcard from Web Page
>
>
>I am trying to put Vcards on a web page for downloading.  The link is a 
>straight "A Href=". The browsers are treating it as a flat text file and 
>showing the info rather than asking to download the file.
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>Is there a Java script or some way to trick the browser to ask it to 
>download rather than should the text?
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>thanks
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