What is the Java community's consensus for M$'s plan to exclude the JVM from all future releases?
Cheers! Mark ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason Hunter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 3:00 PM Subject: Re: Force saving file > IE doesn't respect the content-type header. It's ironic, considering > http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=1436. > > Anyway, IE appears to use file extensions and sniffing of the actual > content to determine a content type. For example, there's now way I > know of to send an IE browser a GIF without having IE display the GIF. > You could be in similar territory with Excel files. > > I talk about this on page 109 of the book actually > (http://www.servlets.com/jservlet2). > > -jh- > > "Godbey, David" wrote: > > > > Problem: > > Return an Excel spreadsheet from a server to a user's web browser, IE. I do > > not want to allow the spreadsheet opening in the browser window, rather I > > want to force the user to have to download the file to their local disk. The > > environment is a Lan with trusting relationships between all parties. > > > > Using Jason's ServletUtil class, I'm easily sending the file, but it insists > > on opening in the browser when I set content type to > > application/vnd.ms-excel or even the more generic application/octet-stream. > > > > Is my problem easily solved? How? > > Thanks, > > Dave > > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > > To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body > > of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". > > > > Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html > > Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html > > LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body > of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". > > Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html > Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html > LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html > > ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html
