you may need to add a mime mapping element to your web.xml then. look it up tomcat mime types
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 06 February 2004 11:46 To: Tomcat Users List Subject: RE: Excel Mime problem i see the excel being created.. i can open the same excel from where it is created.. there is no question abt the file creation bcoz i can see the contents in IE but not as a excel opening in IE.. http://localhost:8000/test.xls i use window.open("http://localhost:8000/test.xls"); this opens the excel contents in the browser juss like a text file ..i mean no excel embedded in that.. but i copy the created excel to another folder and i create a html page haviong simple code of window,open("test.xls") then it IE opens the same contents as a Excel embedded within IE Pavan Kumar Tata Consultancy Services Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.tcs.com <FONT SIZE=1 FACE="VERDANA,ARIAL" COLOR=BLUE> ------------------------------------------------------- QAS Ltd. Developers of QuickAddress Software <a href="http://www.qas.com">www.qas.com</a> Registered in England: No 2582055 Registered in Australia: No 082 851 474 ------------------------------------------------------- </FONT>