Re: setContentType

Try this:
response.setContentType("text/csv");
response.setHeader("Content-Disposition","attachment; filename=\"" +
filename + "\"");
PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();

Alvin Chang wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I have a servlet which generates a comma separated value(CSV) file and
> the browser will prompt a dialog so the user can save the output file
> to a preferred location. It works fine on Netscape Navigator but when
> I use IE6 I got the following error
>
> "Internet Explorer was not able to open this Internet site. The
> requested site is either unavailable ro cannot  be found.
>  Please try again later".
>
> I use the following statement
> setContentType( "text/comma-separated" )
> and I can get around it with
> setContentType("text/plain");
>
> but the browser will just display the plain text instead of a dialog box.
>
> What MIME type shall I use so a dialog will prompt in both IE and
> Netscape.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Alvin Chang

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