I believe from previous posts that IE cheats on the content type of
downloaded files by looking at the filename as opposed to the content type
spec. To get around it, you have to use the three letter file extension in
the filename that corresponds to your file type (example: .jpg for jpeg
files, .doc for Word docs, .exe for executable files)
--David Smith
On Thursday 30 August 2001 01:06 pm, you wrote:
> 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
