Friend, if you ever find out, please let me know--I've been searching
for a solution to this IE feature for over four years now!!
I've fallen back on telling the user in my documentation to use the
browser's save function (in the case of text, images, etc.) or the save
of the application
SP1, but that didn't even seem to work
right here.
-jason
Thad Humphries [EMAIL PROTECTED]
08/30/2001 12:06 PM
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Subject:Re: IE and downloading a binary file
Friend, if you ever find out, please
I believe from previous posts that IE cheats on the content type of
downloaded files by looking at the filename as opposed to the content type
spec. To get around it, you have to use the three letter file extension in
the filename that corresponds to your file type (example: .jpg for jpeg
If you do get the latest service pack, don't get SP2 for IE! I
understand that it removes support for old-style plugins, including the
Java 2 plugin as loaded by the jsp:plugin tag. I guess that is
Microsloth's way of saying, So, there, Sun!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We ran into this same
Hi,
My servlet has to get the Browsers to download binary file independently of their
contents. For this purpose I use response.setContentType(application/octet-stream)
and I write the content of the file into the output stream of the server. it works
fine with Netscape and partly with
I believe from previous posts that IE cheats on the content type of
downloaded files by looking at the filename as opposed to the content type
spec. To get around it, you have to use the three letter file extension in
the filename that corresponds to your file type (example: .jpg for jpeg
hi all,
if you just make up a mime type of your own that the browser
does not understand then you will be presented with a saveas
dialog in IE.
what I want to know is if you have a mime type that is correct (ie
for a flash animation etc) why IE5+ insists on refusing to display it
but
