pdf documents

[David Smith <dns4 (at) cornell.edu>]

I would recommend a servlet that streams the files from some configured 
absolute path(s) to the client.  It's reasonably simple and allows you 
some degree of control over what is delivered.  Map the servlet to *.pdf 
in your web.xml to make it respond to all requests for pdfs.

--David

Bob Wyatt wrote:

> For the client side, sure.
> I already know it works if I copy the pdf file under my tomcat
> application... I just don't want to move hundreds of files there...
>
> Regards,
>
> Bob
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin Gainty [mailto:mgainty (at) hotmail.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 07:30
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> Subject: Re: pdf documents
>
> Those files are in a proprietary format..you'll need to go to adobe and get 
> the PDF plugin/viewer for display-
> M-
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> From: "Suba Suresh" <subas (at) wolfram.com>
> To: "Tomcat Users List" <users (at) tomcat.apache.org>
> Sent: Monday, June 19, 2006 10:28 PM
> Subject: Re: pdf documents
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>  
>
> > I have the same problem as Bob but files mapping into different file 
> > systems. I also tried the context mapping as you (Mark)had suggested with 
> > app.xml file. I will read about the link config tomorrow and try it. Any 
> > help would be appreciated.
> >
> > thanks,
> > suba suresh.
> >
> > Bob Wyatt wrote:
> >    
> >
> > > Mark,
> > >
> > > No... Didn't know about it...
> > > Now that I know about it (Thank You), I'm not sure of what really needs 
> > > to
> > > be done... No where under $CATALINA_HOME do I have a defaultcontext.xml, 
> > > context.xml,
> > > or similarly named file. All of my similarly named files are *.html files
> > >      
>
>  
>
> > > or
> > > directories, as follows:
> > >
> > > #pwd
> > > /usr/local/jakarta-tomcat-5
> > > # find . -name \*context\* -print
> > > ./server/webapps/admin/context
> > > ./server/webapps/admin/defaultcontext
> > > ./webapps/tomcat-docs/config/printer/context.html
> > > ./webapps/tomcat-docs/config/printer/defaultcontext.html
> > > ./webapps/tomcat-docs/config/context.html
> > > ./webapps/tomcat-docs/config/defaultcontext.html
> > > ./webapps/wade2/scripts/contextmenu.css
> > >
> > > So I'm not sure what to do - any advice?
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Bob
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Mark Thomas [mailto:markt (at) apache.org] Sent: Monday, June 19, 2006 
> > > 21:13
> > > To: Tomcat Users List
> > > Subject: Re: pdf documents
> > >
> > > Bob Wyatt wrote:
> > >
> > >      
> > >
> > > > I have a directory that contains hundreds of pdf files.
> > > >
> > > > I have Tomcat 5.0.28 running on AIX 5.2.
> > > >
> > > > Under the webapps/appname directory, if I create a symbolic link to the
> > > >        
> > > pdf
> > >
> > >      
> > >
> > > > files, they will not display.
> > > >        
> > > Have you enabled linking? See the allowLinking property at
> > > http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/config/context.html
> > >
> > > Mark
> > >
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