You may try setting the content type to test/plain response.setContentType(
"text/plain" );. However, IE sometimes (not sure why) uses the file extension to
know the file type.
regards,
janco
Partha Bhattacharjee wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a servlet that connects to a database, reads it and then creates a
> well formed xml file out of it. Now I have to give users the option of being
> able to download the stuff if they want.
>
> The following code works fine for most of the cases but xml files
>
> import javax.servlet.http.*;
> import javax.servlet.*;
> import java.io.*;
>
> public class content extends HttpServlet
> {
> public void doPost ( HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse
> response )
> throws IOException
> {
>
> response.setHeader ( "content-disposition",
> "attachment;filename=test.txt" ) ;
> PrintWriter out = response.getWriter () ;
> out.println ("<partha></partha>" ) ;
> out.close();
> }
> }
>
> This works fine till the name of the file is test.txt but the moment I make
> it test.xml it gets into some kind of loop and does not download. However
> one can still view it.
>
> As you can see it is a valid xml file and the same code works for all kinds
> of files but xml.
>
> Could anybody out there help? I need it .
>
> brgds
> partha
>
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