RE: How to force a file download to save

Jean-Christophe CHARVY <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.sun.servlet
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

If you manage download through servlets, you can specify which behaviour the client browser has to follow.

To force the file download to save, use :

response.addHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachment; filename=" + filename);


JC
http://jc.charvy.free.fr/

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Date  : Wed, 21 May 2003 10:47:47 -0400
Objet : How to force a file download to save

> 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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