Re: How to force a file download to save
Paul Copeland <[email protected]>
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| Organization | JOT Object Technologies |
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Jason - It looks like the IE problem with not forcing a file save with "attachment" in a Content-Disposition header (which you describe in the book excerpt) was fixed starting with IE 6.x (and with patches for IE 5.5). In addition to violating the HTTP spec, this IE bug was part of a security flaw that could cause automatic invocation of a virus in the downloaded file. The content type sniffing rules for IE still override the Content-Type header for responses without the Content-Disposition header. It's a feature, not a bug :-) -- Paul Copeland, JOT Object Technologies - http://www.jotobjects.com > ------------------------------ > > Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 11:56:39 -0700 > From: Jason Hunter <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: How to force a file download to save > > >>To force the file download to save, use : > > > I wrote about this problem in the "Java Enterprise Best Practices" book, > and the servlet chapter is online for free. This topic is in the third > part: > > http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/excerpt/jebp_3/index3.html > > Basically there's the way it's supposed to work and then there's the way > it really works taking into account buggy browsers (and browser > developers who think they know better than spec authors). > > -jh- > ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html