I had the same problem with IE4. I talked to MS and they said there is absolutely no way to fix it (in IE4) without using an ActiveX Control. This only applies to .txt files. Looks like they broke IE5.5 too. IE5.0 works better -- not perfect (spinning globe or perminent hour glass cursor). James Wilson HealthFirst Corp. -----Original Message----- From: A mailing list about Java Server Pages specification and reference [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of hua ge Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2000 8:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [JSP-INTEREST] IE 5.5 and IE 5.0 behaves different on setHeader and download Hi, I have a jsp page which set up header as following: response.setHeader("Content-Disposition","attachment; filename= result.txt;"); on this jsp page I format the output as the fixed length column format.since the header is set up this way, so when this jsp page is loaded, it suppose to pop up the download dialog box and show the default save as file name as result.txt. it works perfect in IE 5.0, but since I upgrade the IE 5.0 to IE 5.5, it won't pop up the download dialog box anymore, it just directly display the output in the plain text format on the brower. can someone tell me how to deal with the header type to make it still treated as download file in IE 5.5 ??? thanks Helen Ge _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. =========================================================================== To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff JSP-INTEREST". Some relevant FAQs on JSP/Servlets can be found at: http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/faq.html http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.html http://www.jguru.com/jguru/faq/faqpage.jsp?name=JSP http://www.jguru.com/jguru/faq/faqpage.jsp?name=Servlets =========================================================================== To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff JSP-INTEREST". Some relevant FAQs on JSP/Servlets can be found at: http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/faq.html http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.html http://www.jguru.com/jguru/faq/faqpage.jsp?name=JSP http://www.jguru.com/jguru/faq/faqpage.jsp?name=Servlets
