I do use setContentType(), but I do get asked by IE whether I want to open or
save the document. From a servlet using the ...xls in the URL I can prevent
the question whether I want to open the document, it will be opened without
any questions.
Zsolt
On Wednesday 04 September 2002 20:46, Justin Ruthenbeck wrote:
> Zsolt --
>
> Guess I'm a bit confused why you wouldn't want to use the setContentType()
> method in your jsp ... this is how a problem like this is normally solved
> (and why the method exists in the first place).
>
> Regardless, you can also do it by extension on your jsp. Depending on how
> your project is setup, this may be prohibitively difficult, but you can
> precompile your jsp and map it (now a servlet) to whatever you want in your
> web.xml -- map it to result.xls if you'd like. If you (1) aren't
> precompiling jsps or (2) have a complex proxy environment with webservers,
> this will be difficult. All the more reason to use setContentType().
>
> Happy trails!
> justin
>
> At 11:57 PM 9/3/2002, you wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I can get Excel directly started from a servlet using two things:
> >1. response.setContentType("application/vnd.ms-excel");
> >2. the servlet path ends with result.xls (like
> > /servlet/abc/result.xls?p=1)
> >
> >I can use response.setContentType(...) from JSP too, but I was not able to
> >use
> >a JSP path to end with "xls", thus when I start (click on a link) the JSP
> >file, first I'm asked whether I want to open the file directly or just to
> >download.
> >How could I get Excel started without any furher questions like it is
> >possible
> >from a servlet?
> >
> >Zsolt
> >
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