使用servlet从服务器将文件下载到客户端计算机上的指定位置

Question

I am trying to download a file from the server to the client machine using Servlet. I am reading a file from the server and trying to send that file to the client machine. Is there a way in servlet to send file from server to client? Or is it possible in servlets to transfer a file from the server to a location specified by the client?

Answer 1

The client is responsible to handle the response it gets from the server in any way it sees fit. It can save the response data, it can ignore it, it can do anything it wants. The client is the client.

So, to answer your question, no the server has and must not have any way to specify how the client handles the response.

BTW: The server does not "send" the response to the client, but the client requests the response from the server. The client is acting, the server is reacting