Have you tried Randy Paries' suggestion about appending a bogus parameter like this:
http://www.host.com/myApp/account/users/results.jsp?a=.xls I've seen this work for jpg and swf files before -- curious if this will solve your problem... justin At 04:19 PM 9/4/2002, you wrote: >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 > > > > > >-- > > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: > > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional > > > commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >-- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
