How to force a file download to save

"Paku, Neil" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.sun.servlet
Message-ID <87EF6E23E5FBFC4290BF67724BF4A572639513@DOIT-EX101.exec.ds.state.ct.us>
Group,
        can someone tell me what the options are for forcing a file
download to pop up a save dialogue. 

What I want to do is force the save dialogue to open for any of the
files available from a particular site for download, including our xml,
txt and csv files.

As far as I know, I can either:
1. Change my server mimetypes so that it defaults to sending my file
with a content type of e.g. "bad/type"
2. Manually alter the response object to set the content type to e.g.
"bad/type".

Are there any other ways that I can do this? 
Cheers,
        Neil.

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