Re: How to download a file from server without browser opening new window?

Can't you just link to your servlet?

<a href="{0}">Download</a> (where {0} is replaced with your URL)

or new Anchor("Download", GWT.getModuleBaseURL() + "MyServlet")

On Friday, February 1, 2013 4:57:06 PM UTC+1, membersound wrote:

Hi,

I created a servlet that provides a downloadable file (from String content) by writing to the ServletOutputStream.
On the client side, I trigger the file download by an Anchor with:

Window.open(GWT.getModuleBaseURL() + "MyServlet", "_blank", "");

It works fine, BUT it seems to open a new browser window, which is somehow directly closed. After this the file download dialog is show.
How can I prevent this flickering of a new browser window? Can't I achieve this somehow inline?

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