Hi Peter,
Apart from the file name, the only difference between your suggestion and what I am
doing is that :-
1) your Java code is in a JSP, while mine is in an Action form
2) you are using "text/csv" as the content type, while mine is "application/msword"
Perhaps by having my code in an Action form, something within Struts/Tomcat etc.
decides that it isn't appropriate to allow me to set the Content-Disposition and
Content-Description response headers (as I am processing a request from the user) and
is ignoring them. So when the OutputStream is flushed later on, the browser just gets
a stream of data without those headers.
As soon as I can, I had better test whether using a JSP allows me to influence the
browser captions and suggest the file name when downloading Word documents.
Regards.
Mike
-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Hilton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 08 December 2003 09:51
To: 'Struts Users Mailing List'
Subject: RE: Setting browser download dialogue box captions and
suggesting file names
To make a JSP respond as a CSV download I start the JSP like this:
<%
response.setContentType("text/csv");
response.setHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachment;
filename=some-data.csv");
%>
For Word, you probably need this:
<%
response.setContentType("application/msword");
response.setHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachment;
filename=my-document.doc");
%>
Peter Hilton
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-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Parfitt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 01 December 2003 11:42
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Subject: Setting browser download dialogue box captions and suggesting
file names
[...] When a user clicks on one, a request is made to the server passing in
the ID of the chosen file (Microsoft Word) to be downloaded. [...] The file
is then downloaded to the user's browser (Internet Explorer - V5) but I
cannot find how to influence the caption/contents of the various dialogue
boxes [...]
Mike Parfitt
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