Re: best practice for temporary file

2018-07-20 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Chris, On 7/17/18 10:36 AM, Chris Cheshire wrote: > James, this can be done using something like the following > configuration in your META-INF/context.xml (I use tomcat 8.5) > > className="org.apache.catalina.webresources.DirResourceSet" > bas

Re: best practice for temporary file

2018-07-17 Thread James Finnall
Thank you! Had some problems but I was able to research the issues and find a solution to what I was doing wrong.  I did not have a "/cdn/ROOT" directory, mine is "/webapps/ROOT".  The Resource section needs to be with-in the Context section and not after it.  My original context.xml file only had

Re: best practice for temporary file

2018-07-17 Thread Chris Cheshire
James, this can be done using something like the following configuration in your META-INF/context.xml (I use tomcat 8.5) I use this to serve files at /images because they are dynamic content and not part of the war itself. Make sure the directory specified by "base" has read and write permis

best practice for temporary file

2018-07-17 Thread James Finnall
Hello all, What is the best practice under Tomcat to create a data file and then allow the client to download it? So far all my attempts have failed.  If the Java app can write it then the client can not download, if client can download then the Java app can not write it. Does Tomcat have a prov