RE: Dowloading Vcard from Web Page

Hi,

Attached is the servlet file, modify the vcard string as per your requirement & compile to java class file.

You will need a web application container like Tomcat (http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-5.5-doc/).

Put the servlet class file in $TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/<SomeProject>/WEB_INF/classes/ directory

Add following to the web.xml (present in WEB-INF directory)

<servlet-name>ExportVCard</servlet-name>

<servlet-class>ExportVCard</servlet-class>

</servlet>

<servlet-mapping>

<servlet-name>ExportVCard</servlet-name>

<url-pattern>/ExportVCard</url-pattern>

</servlet-mapping>

In your web page call as follows:

<a href="" >Download VCard</a>

This will download the .vcf file and you can open it or save to some location.

Regards

Ajay Naphade

Project Leader - R&D

ajaynaphade@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

From: Matthew Mandell [mailto:savewestport@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 7:02 PM
To: ajaynaphade@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Dowloading Vcard from Web Page

Could you send me an example of how to do this servlet and where to place it on the server and how to call it, I have not programmed in years. I appreciate the help.

Thanks

Ajay Naphade wrote:

I am not sure about existence _javascript_ which could do this.

But following method is tested by me:

Write a servlet with its doPost method having following:

//get outputstream

OutputStream outputStream = response.getOutputStream();

//set MIME type for http header, extension vcf //content type text/plain

response.setContentType("text/plain");

String fileName = "attachment; filename="myvcard.vcf";

response.setHeader("content-disposition",fileName);

//write the vcard string to the outputstream

outputStream.write(vcardString); outputStream.close();

In your web page, <a href="" Vcard</a>

(Remember to configure the web.xml for the servlet class name.)

Regards

Ajay Naphade

Project Leader - R&D

ajaynaphade@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

-----Original Message-----

From: Matthew Mandell [mailto:savewestport@xxxxxxxxxx]

Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 5:04 PM

To: ajaynaphade@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Subject: Re: Dowloading Vcard from Web Page

Thanks, but how do you do that? Are the any stock scripts out there that

do it?

Matthew

Ajay Naphade wrote:

Hi,

Straight href will do but you should call a java program, which will set

the

header "Content-disposition" and write the file to output stream.

Regards,

Ajay Naphade

-----Original Message-----

From: owner-imc-vcard@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-imc-vcard@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On

Behalf Of Matthew Mandell

Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 7:00 PM

To: imc-vcard@xxxxxxx

Subject: Dowloading Vcard from Web Page

I am trying to put Vcards on a web page for downloading.  The link is a

straight "A Href="" The browsers are treating it as a flat text file and

showing the info rather than asking to download the file.

Is there a _javascript_ or some way to trick the browser to ask it to

download rather than should the text?

thanks