Friend, if you ever find out, please let me know--I've been searching
for a solution to this IE "feature" for over four years now!!
I've fallen back on telling the user in my documentation to use the
browser's save function (in the case of text, images, etc.) or the save
of the application opened in the browser window (in the case of Excel,
Word, etc.).
Jez, I wish Mozilla would finally get it together...
Zsolt Koppany wrote:
>Hi,
>
>My servlet has to get the Browsers to download binary file independently of their
>contents. For this purpose I use response.setContentType("application/octet-stream")
>and I write the content of the file into the output stream of the server. it works
>fine with Netscape and partly with IE. The problem is that IE obviously ignores
>setContentType() and depending of the file sometime it tries to show the content of
>the file instead of downloading it.
>How can I force IE to download the file?
>Zsolt
>
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