Download CSV file from apllication server

[felix thomas]

Hi,

I have created a csv file in the weapps/csv directory. now my problem is i want to download that csv file from a jsp page by giving a link.

i don't want to hard code the server path , is there anyway i can do that

the application server i am using is tomcat. Just by clicking the link the csv file shd download

[Amol Fuke]

You can use the properties file for this.
Read the property with help of ResourceBundle from the file and use it to make the link.

If your server changes you just need to change value of that variable in the property file.

[Ulf Dittmer]

Tomcat will not serve files that are inside the WEB-INF directory, so you will need to create the file somewhere outside of it in a publicly accessible directory, or write a download servlet that reads the file in WEB-INF and streams it to the client for you.