Thanks, I'll give this a shot.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Boris Erukhimov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 11:19 AM
> To: Orion-Interest
> Subject: Re: Downloading a file via a Servlet
>
>
> You may try this for download any type of file
> <code>
> //Ns and MSIE need different content type to
> force download
> if(-1 < _request.getHeader("User-Agent").indexOf("MSIE") )
> response.setContentType("message/external-body;
> access-type=anon-ftp") ;
> else
> response.setContentType("application/octet-stream") ;
>
> response.setHeader("Content-disposition",
> "attachment;filename=" +
> "yourfilename.ext" ) ;
> response.setContentLength(file_to_send.length());
>
> </code>
> ~boris
>
> "Van Dooren, Damian" wrote:
>
> > I was wondering if anyone knew of a way to get around the following
> > situation:
> >
> > We have a servlet that sends back PDFs that are stored in a
> database.
> > Everything seems to work great but the one oddity/issue
> that I would like to
> > solve if possible is. When someone wants to save the PDF, instead of
> > viewing, it wants to save the PDF as the name of the
> servlet. I understand
> > why this is the case, but I wonder if there is anything,
> perhaps in the
> > content header, that I could set the actual name of the file.
> >
> > Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > -----
> > Damian Van Dooren
> > Information Technology
> > The Investment Centre
> > (519) 672-4389 x718
> >
>
>
