Question for double click issue regarding fileload with commandLink/CommandButton

[Yasushi Okubo]

Hi experts,

I have multiple download links [commandLink] /buttons[commandButton] on the same page. I realized that a user needs to click twice to see an open directory window from the second attempt, I do not understand why this is happening.

The download page was implemented with jsp page. commandLink/commandbutton are simply taking a user to this download page by clicking a link or a button.

At the first click, a use always go to this page and the browser asks a user if one wants to save a directory or open on the browser. Then a user can decide to cancel or save or open. At the second attempts, the problem is that a user clicks link/button subsequently right after the first attempt, the action does not take a user to the jsp page, and it only reloads page with a round trip.
Then a user needs to click a link/ a button second time, then it works.

Could someone advise me why this is happening and is there anyway to stop this ?

I implemented a commandbutton + actionListener [in backing bean] solution for file download, but the result was the same. From the second attempt, a user always needs to click twice [double click] button.
I saw the one post on google is that adding _blank on form tag helps, but it actually did not help at all.

Any idea ?

yasushi


==== partial code for jsp page ====
....

if(allowCache == null || allowCache.equalsIgnoreCase("false"))
{
response.setHeader("pragma", "no-cache");
response.setHeader("Cache-control", "no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate");
response.setHeader("Expires", "01 Apr 1995 01:10:10 GMT");
response.addHeader("Cache-Control", "post-check=0, pre-check=0");
response.setDateHeader ("Expires", 0);
}

if(contentType!=null)
{
response.setContentType(contentType);
}

if(fileName != null)
{

StringBuffer contentDisposition = new StringBuffer();

if("true".equals(openDirectly))
{
contentDisposition.append("attachment;");
logger.info("==> attachement");
}

contentDisposition.append("filename=\"");
contentDisposition.append(fileName);
contentDisposition.append("\"");

response.setHeader ("Content-Disposition", contentDisposition.toString());
}

if (bytes != null)
{
response.getOutputStream().write(bytes);
}