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Thank you very much for your help. The WEB.XML file seems to be much different on version 4.0 very good help thanks again... -----Original Message----- From: Craig R. McClanahan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 10:52 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Cc: 'Dmitri Colebatch' Subject: RE: File Download - CSV question **** On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Evan Swanson wrote: > Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 13:22:06 -0700 > From: Evan Swanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: 'Dmitri Colebatch' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: RE: File Download - CSV question **** > > > I order to reduce the variable, I tried installing TC4.0 on the same > windows based machine. I am using the same client for both( IE5.0 ). > > Results: > TC3.2 will present a popup box for downloading files with .CSV extention. > TC4.0 throws data directly up on the screen. > In a servlet 2.3 environment, the default content type is not allowed to be set on the download. You must declare it yourself (see below). > > Is there any reason for this? Can I change the configuration? > Yes. Yes. > Is this a MIME type problem? > Yes. You can declare the appropriate content types for your files by using the <mime-type> declaration like this in your web.xml file: <mime-mapping> <extension>csv</extension> <mime-type>application/octet-stream</mime-type> </mime-mapping> The other important issue is what your *browser* thinks a particular file type should be. Netscape Navigator is usually pretty good about respecting the "Content-Type" header sent by the server, while IE tends to make its own assumptions about the file type, no matter what yo do on the server side. Craig McClanahan
