Writing a text file back to browser from a servlet

[David Kerber <dckerber (at) verizon.net>]

I'm trying to do something that seems like it should be very easy, but 
can't get it to work:  sending a .txt file back to the user's browser so 
they can save it to their local hard disk.  I am having no trouble 
creating the file and writing it to a temporary place on the server, but 
can't figure out what I need to do so the users can save the result.

Right now, I'm using the following code excerpt:

 fReader = new FileReader( fullFileName );
 bReader = new BufferedReader( fReader );
 oStream = response.getOutputStream();
 while (( logString = bReader.readLine()) != null ) {
     // I'm sure a println would also work, but this is what I happen 
to have right now
     oStream.write(( logString + EddRcvr.newLineStr ).getBytes());
 }
 oStream.close();
 bReader.close();
 fReader.close();


And it *displays* just fine in the browser window, but when I try to 
save it (using firefox 1.5.x), the download windows says it completed 
successfully, but the file is never there when I try to look at it.

Any suggestions as to what I'm missing?

TIA!
Dave



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