Just use application/octet-stream and format the data correctly. Patrick Lanphier The Artemis Group http://www.artemisgroup.com phone: 814-235-0444 fax: 800-582-9710
On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Savino, Matt C wrote: > Can anyone point me to a good references on getting various response content > types/file extension mappings to work with IE and Netscape? I'm having a > devil of a time getting CSV and XML to save correctly AND create the correct > user prompts. We'd like the open/save dialog to come up for everything, but > we'd also like to have the correct extension show up when the user goes to > save the file. Customizing the filename for each instance is not important. > IE - QueryOutput.pdf, QueryOutput.html, QueryOutput.csv, QueryOutput.xml is > fine. > > For CSV, if I set the content type as application/excel and the user saves > the CSV file, it gets saved as a binary file. Which is fine for everything > except Notepad and Access 97, which apparently can't convert to ascii > correctly and don't see the line breaks. If I change the content type to > text/csv, IE works fine, but Netscape saves the file with some extra > carriage returns and weird characters. I could set separate content types > based on browser, but the users with Netscape who want to import their CSV > into Access 97 are still out of luck. > > For XML, IE seems to always want to open any mapping with a .xml extension > no matter what you tell it the content is. We'd rather give the user the > option to save first. Also, IE 4.x tries to open every XML file it sees, but > can't -- even perfectly good XML files sitting on my hard drive. XMLSpy is > set up as my default app for .xml, but if you're already in the browser I > guess IE just ignores that. > > Finally for HTML in Netscape, for some reason after I open the XSLT > stylesheet in a new window, when I go back to the opening window, I have > weird box characters all over the place -- on a page that doesn't get > redrawn at all. I've seen the same behavior on slightly different versions > of communicator 4.x on NT4 and Win2k. Very strange. I attached a screenshot. > Anyone else seen similar behavior with Netscape and stylesheets? > > Thanks a lot, I know none of these are related to FOP. But I also know from > hanging around here that a lot of you are fighting with some of the same > issues in your multi-output systems. I've been searching the web and found > some good info. But every other forum I find hasn't been updated for 6 > months+. > > Thanks again for any little pointers or knowledge. > > > Matt Savino > Senior Systems Analyst > Quest Diagnostics Clinical Trials > > <<boxes.jpg>> >
