How can we display an Open/Save As dialog box for multiple files?

We want to develop a JSP/Servlet page where user can select and download multiple files. The requirement is to download all the requested files in a single request/response cycle. We need to show an Open/Save As dialog box to the user on a JSP page separately for each downloaded file. How can we achieve this? Is it possible to display the Open/Save As dialog box separately for each file? Can we use Javascript to do this? If yes, how?

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Multiple files are quite simple to specify. The following JSP demonstrates this: 
<html>
<head>
<title>Download File</title>
</head>
<body>
    <form name="DownloadFileForm"
          action="/mywebapp/servlet/MyServlet"
          method="post"
          enctype="multipart/form-data">
      <table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="1"
cellspacing="0">
        <tr><td nowrap>File 1: <input name="file1"
                                      type="file"
                                      size="80"></td></tr>
        <tr><td nowrap>File 2: <input name="file2"
                                      type="file"
                                      size="80"></td></tr>
        <tr><td nowrap>File 3: <input name="file3"
                                      type="file"
                                      size="80"></td></tr>
        <tr><td nowrap>File 4: <input name="file4"
                                      type="file"
                                      size="80"></td></tr>
        <tr align="center" valign="top">
          <td width="100%">
            <input type="submit"
                   name="submit"
                   value="Submit"
                   alt="Submit"
          </td>
        </tr>
      </table>
   </form>
</head>
You can use Javascript to validate the input fields, if you want to, but gathering the file names is simple HTML.

This was first published in January 2004

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