I need to call a HtML file in c drive from my jsp

Hi .,

Please tell me if this is possible .

I need to call a HTML file which is in C drive from my jsp running under server .

Thanks in advance .

What do you mean by call?

Means i need to show that HTML content which is in C drive . It is a simple HTML page .

So, all you need to do is forward to it from your JSP?

Yes Paul . Please tell me the solution

Have a read of the documentation for <jsp:forward />.

I tried with this <jsp:forward > but its not working an dalso i tried with

What happened when you tried? "Its not working" doesn't give us much to work with; you need to TellTheDetails otherwise we can't help.

I mean to ask is this possible to access client files from server ??

To your question

I got different exceptions when used different ways :

when used RequestDispatcher.include or forward i got NullPoilterException at Rd.include(request,response);

Used response.sendRedirect the browser used to show a default page of windows(the page we will get when internet is not accessable)

I mean to ask is this possible to access client files from server ??

Not this way. You can only redirect to stuff on the server. If you want to "call" an HTML file from the server you will need to first get the client to upload it.

Seems like a wierd thing to be trying. Why do you want to do this?

Thanks paul ,

Our requirement is that we are getting some data/ reports from database and it is kept in the form of HTML files stored on to the client drive . so we need to access it .( I can't answer more queries on this as i am not an architect , just developing what my Manager wishes)

Please tell me if this task is possible using an HttpClient or an java.net package ) anything is okay to achieve this .

( sorry for the late reply as we don't have access to internet at work, just post questions from a different machine when it is free )

Ravi whatever you are trying looks odd. What do you store on client side? Actually, why do you need to store anything on client side? Please describe the situation.

As i already said . I need to do this .Please tell me if there is any way to achive this task .

use jsp:include...

Thanks i will try and inform you the status .

Abhi Roy wrote:use jsp:include...

This will not work if the include exists on the client

Our requirement is that we are getting some data/ reports from database and it is kept in the form of HTML files stored on to the client drive . so we need to access it .( I can't answer more queries on this as i am not an architect , just developing what my Manager wishes)

So, this data is stored in the database, but you have been asked to access it once it has been downloaded on to the client's machine?! Why not just access it directly from the database? I would speak to your architect - that requirement is just plain crazy. A bit of discussion with your architect might be a good thing, it sounds like this needs clarification.

Paul .This project has not got an architect

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What the manager thinks that has to be done .

Anyway jsp:include also not working . But i have managed it calling explorer.exe and it somehow worked .

You have managed to call explore.exe on the client? How?