Just a guess, but try setting the content type to application/msword
instead of application/x-www-form-urlencoded.
Juan
CPC Livelink Admin wrote:
>
> Is it just word, or excel, powerpoint, etc too? Could this be the Frontpage
> extentions/Office SP1a bug rearing it's ugly head? This bug causes issues
> when Word tries to download the file, but it doesn't share the same browser
> cookies/sessions and so it gets sent to a login page or something else
> instead of the file it wants.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Laurens Pit [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 02:41 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: downloading Word doc
>
> Hi,
>
> Whenever I download a file using Tomcat (i.e. it uses
> org.apache.tomcat.servlets.DefaultServlet) it works, except when I try to
> download a Word document. Then the client side seems to get stuck. This is
> reproducable on different client machines using different servers (Linux and
> Sun). Is anyone else experiencing this problem?
>
> I have also created a very simple Servlet to download a file. Works fine,
> except again for Word documents. Downloading Word documents from e.g.
> www.idrive.com work fine though, so it must be some servers-side thing. Can
> anyone please help??
>
> package com.nervewireless;
>
> import java.io.*;
> import java.util.*;
> import java.sql.*;
> import javax.servlet.*;
> import javax.servlet.http.*;
>
> public final class FileDownload extends HttpServlet
> {
> public void doGet(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse res)
> throws IOException, ServletException
> {
> String path = "C:\\TEMP\\" + req.getPathInfo().substring(1);
> System.out.println("PATH: " + path);
>
> File f = new File(path);
> InputStream in = new BufferedInputStream(new FileInputStream(f));
>
> res.setContentType("application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
> res.setContentLength((int) f.length());
> res.setHeader("Content-disposition","attachement; filename=" +
> f.getName());
> OutputStream out = res.getOutputStream();
>
> int sentsize = 0;
> int readlen;
> byte buffer[] = new byte[256];
>
> while ((readlen = in.read(buffer)) != -1 ) {
> out.write(buffer, 0, readlen);
> sentsize += readlen;
> }
>
> // Success ! Close streams.
> out.flush();
> out.close();
> in.close();
>
> System.out.println("DONE!");
> }
> }
>
> Greets,
> Laurens
