Yes you can, try this:
response.setHeader("Content-Disposition","inline;filename="+theFileName);
Thor HW
----- Original Message -----
From: "Hendrik Schreiber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2000 1:59 AM
Subject: Re: setting the file name for HTML downloads
> Hi!
>
> You cannot set the filename in a header, but there is a trick you can try:
>
> * map your servlet to /fileservlet/* (according to servlet spec 2.2)
> * put a link in your page pointing to /fileservlet/foo.doc
> * in the fileservlet call request.getPathInfo() to get the filename
("foo.doc")
> * map the filename to the real filename and
> * send back the real file (e.g via requestDispatcher.forward(), if the
file has
> the correct extension or via include() if it does not. If it does not
you have
> to set the content type manually with
> response.setContentType(getServletContext().getMimeType(String
filename)))
> * as the link pointed to /fileservlet/foo.doc, the browser will take
foo.doc as
> filename.
>
> good luck,
>
> -hendrik
>
> David Wall wrote:
>
> > I have a file that I'd like to return from my web server, but the name
of
> > the file on the web server is not the same name I'd like it to
"download" as
> > (like the default name that appears in the Save As when the file
download
> > dialog displays).
> >
> > For example, the real file name may be something like
> > /usr/local/apache/uploaded/u100 which was originally called something
like
> > foo.doc when it was uploaded. The file was renamed in order to allow
> > multiple foo.doc files to be uploaded by many people without there being
any
> > conflict in file names (or even multiple uploads from the same person,
but
> > each one is unique).
> >
> > I have a Java servlet that can set the content-type and then writes the
u100
> > file to the output stream, but the file is called "u100" by default.
I'd
> > like the user to see by default the original name (foo.doc). I have
this
> > info in my database, but I'm not sure how to set the "file name" of the
> > downloaded file. Is there something in the HTTP headers or the like
that I
> > can set like the content-type attribute is used to say whether it's
> > text/html, text/plain, application/msword, etc.?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > David
> >
> >
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