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Java Enterprise in a Nutshell (In a Nutshell)
By Jim Farley, William Crawford, Prakash Malani, John Norman, and Justin Gehtland
Published 22 November, 2005
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package com.oreilly.jent.servlets;

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import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.PrintWriter;

import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import javax.servlet.UnavailableException;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;

public class FileServlet extends HttpServlet {

  public void doGet(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse resp)
    throws ServletException, IOException {

    File r;
    FileReader fr;
    BufferedReader br;
    try {
      r = new File(req.getParameter("filename"));
      fr = new FileReader(r);
      br = new BufferedReader(fr);
      if(!r.isFile(  )) {  // Must be a directory or something else
        resp.sendError(HttpServletResponse.SC_NOT_FOUND);
        return;
      }
    }
    catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
      resp.sendError(HttpServletResponse.SC_NOT_FOUND);
      return;
    }
    catch (SecurityException se) { // Be unavailable permanently
      throw(new UnavailableException("Servlet lacks appropriate privileges."));
    }

    resp.setContentType("text/html");
    PrintWriter out = resp.getWriter(  );
    String text;
    while( (text = br.readLine(  )) != null)
      out.println(text);

    br.close(  );
  }
}