Multiple file Download

Hi All,
Is it possible to go for multiple file download from struts2..? Any help is appreciated.

No; that's not how HTTP works... nothing to do with Struts.

OK David... i understand that struts2 can't do anything for this multiple file downloading.
Is there any other way..?

Not using a browser's download capability.

Moving to HTML/JavaScript, in case somebody else knows how this can be done.

Sure, have a link for each file.

Or maybe you can supply more than half a sentence on what you are trying to accomplish?

Bear,

I am trying to donwload multiple files with single button click. (Can't use PHP or any .NET technologies)
In my case it doesn't work with having single link for each file. Client is not ready to click on each link to download files.

Let me know if you need any other information.

Thanks

You could create a ZIP file of all the files the user wants to download.

FileUpload from the Jakarta Commons package seems to handle multiple files. See http://commons.apache.org/fileupload/using.html

Edit: Oops

This was about file download. Sorry.

Kumar Ala wrote:Bear,

I am trying to donwload multiple files with single button click. (Can't use PHP or any .NET technologies)
In my case it doesn't work with having single link for each file. Client is not ready to click on each link to download files.

Let me know if you need any other information.

Thanks

As Ulf said zip file. There is another way, but the user will get a download prompt for every file. Doubt you want that.

Eric

I Guess Ulf's solution might work for me here.
Yes Eric surely user don't want to click on each file to be downloaded.

Ulf can you let me know how we can achive this to download using Zip file...?
It is somethins like i will have list of files and user selectes some file from the list and tried to download. I don't know where i should handle this to zip and download.

Thanks

The only other alternative I can think of is to initiate multiple downloads in invisible iframes.

How about something like: http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/zip/package-summary.html

Eric

Bear Bibeault wrote:The only other alternative I can think of is to initiate multiple downloads in invisible iframes.

A suggested it but OP does not want multiple prompts so zip is only solution.

Eric