Question

I need to submit some information to my servlet. Once I submit this information, I’ll receive a PDF from the servlet based on the data. I know I can construct the URL and pass parameters to it using HTTP GET. Suppose my form data is too large.So is it possible to do this using a hidden iFrame? I’ll submit the parameters using the hidden iFrame and in my servlet, I write the PDF to the response stream. Will this work? If it works can someone please suggest me how to do this?

Answer 1

You’ll need to set the target to the iframe you want to submit it to.

<form action='...' name='theform' target='theiframe'>
  . 
  .
  .
  <iframe name='theiframe' src='...'> 
  </iframe>
</form>

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