Re: sending data to browser via servlet: windows vs. unix
Lord Zoltar wrote:
On Jul 6, 1:17 pm, Lord Zoltar <lord.zol...@gmail.com> wrote:
I wrote a small servlet for a web application to send pdf files
(and other types of files) from a local filesystem to a user's web
browser. When I run the application locally (my workstation runs
Windows), everything works fine. When I deploy to the testing server
(which runs UNIX), the data does not get transmitted properly. Trying
to get a PDF file causes Acrobat to return an error of "The root
object is missing or invalid". Trying to retrieve a Word file via the
servlet causes Word to try to convert from some unidentified encoding
(which fails and results in garbage on the screen).
The problem seems to be that the same code is not sending the data
correctly when run on the UNIX server. I'm not sure why this would be,
I had thought that Java was supposed to handle differences between
filesystems on its own. Any ideas?
Never mind, the files on the test system had been systematically
corrupted when they were moved over to it, all fixed now. The Java
code to send the data from the servlet does indeed work on Windows and
UNIX the same, just as I'd expected :)
:-)
Arne
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