Hehe. To get around it with a JSP, just arange to take a parameter that ends in the string ".xls".
http://some.such.com/myServlet?myRealParam=123&billgates=dummy.xls Then just ignore the dummy parameter in the JSP. -----Original Message----- From: Andrew C. Oliver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 9:30 PM To: POI Users List Subject: Re: POI and JSP Ferruccio Spagna wrote: >>Personally I think JSPs are TOTALLY inappropriate for (well just about >>everything other than demonstrating how to program non object oriented >>code) binary output. I would highly recommend you use a servlet. >> >> > >I can agree with you. Nevertheless I tried to write a clean JSP page with >some POI code and the Excel file was finally created and avalaible via a >link on the same page. Why not? The only problem is now that IExplorer >doesn't open Excel automatically (Netscape does), or can I do something for >this? I tried to stream to the client an xls from a servlet that specifies >the content-type without having better result. > > Some versions of IE ignore the content-type and use the file extension. With a servlet you can work around this by mapping a handler. You can probably do this with a JSP somehow or other, but I'm not sure how. -Andy -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
