In html <a href> tag, how to call servlet before opening file dialog for download (save as)?
- by deepthinker121
Hi All,
I am developing a web-app where I want to provide a download link to users - so they can download a zip file from my server.
Now, my requirement is that I want to execute some processing logic contained in a servlet before displaying the file dialog to the user for 'zip' files.
So If I write
<a href="abc.zip".......>
then it opens a file dialog asking the user to select the location where this file can be saved
But if I want a servlet's doGet method to do some preprocessing - say like building the zip file , then how can I first call the servlet and then open the file dialog.
Will the following snippet work?
<a href="MyHandlerServlet;abc.zip".......>
Thanks for your help !!