thanks everybody. I could solve the problem.
 There was a typo in my response text.
 When I changed the following line
response.setContentType("test/html");
 with
 response.setContentType("text/html");
 It jus worked like a charm.
 thanks !


 On 10/10/05, Developer Developer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> does anybody know how to fix this problem.
>   Invocation of servlet prompts a messagebox posing a questions " do you
> want to save this ?" instead of executing it and returing the output in the
> html document.
>  :(
>
>  On 10/10/05, Developer Developer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > I wrote my first html and servlet and deployed it on tomcat 5.5. The
> > html
> > works okay when I call it from the browser. The servlet too works okay
> > when
> > I call its doget() method by invoking it from the browser. EG:. 
> > http://localhost:8080/VBeer/BeerSelect
> >
> > However, when i try to invoke the servlet from an html form I get a
> > message
> > box - (file download security warning) - Do you want to save this file ?
> > It has a
> > funny number suffixed to the my servlet name.
> >
> >
> > Not sure what is happening.
> > Here is my HTML code snippet.
> >
> > <body>
> >
> > <h1 align =3D "center">Beer selecton Page </h1>
> >
> > <form method=3D"POST" action=3D"BeerSelect">
> >
> > <p>Select Beer Characteristics</p>
> >
> > Thanks !
> >
>
>

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