In case anyone cares it turns out this is related to compression. A fix in mod_setenvif for 2.0.49 and above caused compression to be turned on for IE. IE apparently doesn't handle the file name correctly when compression is involved. Firefox does though. Changing Apache to use compression only on text type responses resolves this.
-----Original Message----- From: Rob Baily Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2006 1:11 PM To: 'users@tomcat.apache.org' Subject: Content-Disposition and Filename Attribute Not Working In Some Apache 2 Versions Hi, I've found that when we upgraded from Apache 2.0.48 to 2.0.49 or any other Apache release up to the current 2.0.58 part of the content-disposition header seems to stop working. I opened up bug 39749 in the Apache section for this. I got a response from a person there who said they were stumped and suggested "I suggest you discuss with the Tomcat folks which web server behavior influences the generation of that header field.". Can anyone help me bridge the gap on this to determine where the issue is? I've put my bug information from the other bug here. I'm willing to run other tests and things in debug mode if I am told what settings to use and where to look for results or output. We can reproduce this on our development system every time. Thanks! Rob Baily /-***********************************-/ It appears that somewhere between 2.0.48 and 2.0.58 the setting of the Content- Disposition to set the file name for content returned broke. We are using Tomcat 5.0.28 and modJK 1.2.15. I have put the example servlet code below. When you run the URL the browser pops up with the file name "TestServlet.doc" instead of "test_file_name.doc". I don't believe this to be a Tomcat issue since it works with HTTP 2.0.48 and not with HTTP 2.0.58. I ran http://dev.servicebench.com/rbaily/servlet/TestServlet on my system with this test servlet. Please let me know if there is anything I can do to clarify or help. Thanks! /* * Created on Jun 7, 2006 * * TODO To change the template for this generated file go to * Window - Preferences - Java - Code Style - Code Templates */ package com.servicebench.webside.servlet; import java.io.IOException; import javax.servlet.ServletException; import javax.servlet.ServletOutputStream; import javax.servlet.http.*; /** * @author rbaily * * TODO To change the template for this generated type comment go to * Window - Preferences - Java - Code Style - Code Templates */ public class TestServlet extends HttpServlet { public void doGet(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse res) throws ServletException, IOException { doPost(req, res); } public void doPost(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse res) throws ServletException, IOException { res.setContentType( "application/msword" ); res.setContentLength( 20 ); // set up file name String fileName = "filename=\"test_file_name.doc\""; System.out.println( "filename=" + fileName ); res.setHeader( "Content-Disposition", "attachment;" + fileName ); res.setHeader( "Expires", "0" ); res.setHeader( "Cache-Control", "must-revalidate, post- check=0, pre-check=0" ); ServletOutputStream output = res.getOutputStream(); System.out.println( "about to write" ); output.print( "012345678900987654321" ); output.flush(); output.close(); } } --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
