[Opensource] how can you email html generated by the current request object an d an action forward

[larry hamel]

read down the page for a "cache" tag on http://www.jguru.com/faq/view.jsp?EID=304022

there might also be a better way using servlet filters

larry

At 03:12 PM 2/19/2003, you wrote:
>Sorry, I should have been more verbose. Here's the situation:
>- user clicks and calls a state
>- state generates output to user
>- i want that same state to generate an email with the same information in
>the output to the user, just displayed differently
>- i can't simply use a URL connection to call the state again because there
>is business logic in there which prevents the Output's from being generated
>when the state is run again
>
>So, I want to be able to use the same response object (or just the Outputs
>from that response object) to create a stream based off of a jsp. I've been
>thinking somthing like using a RequestDispatcher to basically make another
>call to a state with no business logic with the same response, but that
>doesn't work because I can't read the data in the response object, only
>write to it.
>
>Thanks,
>Mike
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: larry hamel [mailto:expresso at codeguild.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 7:31 PM
>To: opensource at jcorporate.com
>Subject: Re: [Opensource] how can you email html generated by the
>current request object an d an action forward
>
>
>Did you get an answer to this one?
>
>I'm not sure I understand the entire question...  do you mean you can NOT
>use current response object?.  I assume that the URL connection would be to
>get the HTML as a stream.  You can probably manipulate the framework,
>particularly ExpressoActionServlet.java, such that the JSP output is not
>flushed into the HTTP stream, but rather captured in some string-stream and
>subsequently e-mailed.
>
>larry
>
>At 04:21 PM 2/10/2003, you wrote:
>>I have Ouputs for a jsp view that I want to apply to a different view and
>send as an email. Is there some mechanism in struts to do this, or do I have
>to use a URLConnection to call another page. The obvious problems with using
>a URLConnection is that I can use the current response object.
>> 
>>Thanks,
>>Mike
>> 
>
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