Hi Alex, I think that's actully up to the browser to determinate wheter the browser should display the data, if a helper application should do so or if the user should be prompted to download the file without displaying or executing it. So, in other words, what you need to do is to say on the page which links to the file that if the browser just displays the data you need to press [ALT] on Mac while downloading (and is it [SHIFT] on Windows?). However if your userbase i pretty constant like on an intranet you could send out instructions that files with the extension fls shouldn't be displayed in the browser but instead should the user be prompted for download (or maybe even more convinient - opened in the right application).
Markus On Friday, May 31, 2002, at 11:34 PM, Alex Roussev wrote: > > Hello, > > How do I force Tomcat to serve a file as a download, instead of > displaying it in the browser? > For example, if I have an href pointing to a filename with extention > exe and I click on the href > within a browser it will prompt me to save this file. > > So basically, I want to do this with another file extention ( fls ). > However, when I click on the href Tomcat displays the contents of this > file in the browser. Is there something I need to set up the web.xml > file? > > Do I need to define another <mime-mapping> ? > > > Thank you, > Alex > > > > --------------------------------- > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
