Re: Servlet and text/plain

["Mark Phippard" <MarkP@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Larry,

If you find a way that is 100% I'd love to know.  We cannot find a way even
when sending something like a PDF.  We have searched a lot of web forums to
know avail.  The best you can do is give the browser some "hints" in the
headers.  There is one where you give it the filename you want to use, I
think another where you say it is an attachment, and of course there is the
mime type.

In general, we have found that if IE feels it can handle the type, it will
regardless of what you say.  Netscape/Mozilla will generally do what you
want.

Good luck.

Mark




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Here's what I think should be a simple question, but I could not find the
answer.
I have a servlet that generates dynamic content in text/plain format that
the end user really does not want to display in his/her browser, but really
wants to accept it as a download file. If you click on my link to the
servlet, currently it builds the data and displays it in text in the
browser.
Of course the user could right click and do "save file as" to stream it
directly to a file on his/her hard drive, but that is not elegant. How do I
make the servlet automatically bring up the save file dialog?
Thanks,
Larry

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