sure, this is an easy fix... just append a bogus parameter so your URL ends
in .xls and you'll be fine... IE doesn't depend as much on the content-type
as it ought to.
N
At 11:13 AM 9/17/00, sridhar r wrote:
>Hi
>I have a problem with the IE.When I try to download a
>file with the given content type and header,the file
>gets downloaded perfectly into our local machine with
>Netscape browser but when i try with IE it gets opened
>in the browser itself.Can anyone give me a solution in
>overcoming this problem.
>
>response.setContentType("application/vnd.ms-excels;
>charset=us-ascii");
>
>response.setHeader("Content-Transfer-Encoding",
>"7bit");
>
>response.setHeader("Content-disposition",
>"attachment; filename=\"sample.xls\"");
>
>regards
>Sridhar
>
>
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