RE: downloading files with a servlet

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Edward W. Rouse

ComSquared Systems, Inc.

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> Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 1:33 PM
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> Subject: downloading files with a servlet
>
>
>
> Hello,
> I have implemented a file upload/download function and
> everything works fine
> except for the dowloading of PDF files.  All other file types
> download fine.
> With a pdf download, for some reason the file comes back
> unreadable with the
> Adobe Reader exception: "There was an error opening the
> document.  The file
> is damaged and could not be repaired.".
>
> This can be reproduced in  Resin 2.1.7.  Although with
> Tomcat, pdf files
> download without a problem.
>
> Has anyone had this problem?
> Here is the java code:
>
>     BufferedInputStream fileInputStream = null;
>     OutputStream output = null;
>     BufferedOutputStream out = null;
>
>     File file = new File(fileToFetch);
>
>    getResponse().setContentType("application/x-download");
>    getResponse().setHeader("Content-Disposition",
> "attachment; filename=" +
> displayFileName);
>
>    output = getResponse().getOutputStream();
>    FileInputStream  tempStream = new FileInputStream(fileToFetch);
>    fileInputStream = new
> BufferedInputStream(tempStream,getBufferSize());
>    byte[] buffer = new byte[ getBufferSize()];
>    int bytesRead = 0;
>    out = new BufferedOutputStream(output, getBufferSize());
>    while((bytesRead=fileInputStream.read(buffer)) !=-1){
>        out.write(buffer,0,bytesRead);
>    }
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