On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 13:12:23 -0400, Moynihan, Edward
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> Hi,
> Can anyone point me in the right direction with the following problem that I am
> experiencing.
>
> I've written a very simple action that streams back to the client an attachment.
> So, here is a code snippet from the action to illustrate what I am doing. Assume
> that the URL to hit the action is /testDownloadAction.do and I am using https
> instead of http.
>
> response.setContentType("application/octet-stream");
> response.setHeader("Pragma", "no-cache");
> response.setHeader("Expires", "-1");
>
> buf = new StringBuffer();
>
> buf.append("attachment;filename=").append("TextDownloadByOctectStreamWithoutForward.txt");
> response.setHeader("Content-Disposition", buf.toString());
>
I don't have reason to believe that StringBuffer is working here, but
just in case have you tried something like:
response.setHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachment; filename=\"" +
"TextDownloadByOctectStreamWithoutForward.txt;" + "\"");
or perhaps you are just missing some escaped quotes around your filename?
> writer = response.getWriter();
> writer.write("Sending down some text. This is a text download without a
> forward");
> writer.flush();
> writer.close();
>
> actionForward = null;
>
> When I use FireFox, I get a FileDownload dialog and I am allowed to save the file of
> name "TextDownloadByOctectStreamWithoutForward.txt".
> However, when I use IE 6.0 the FileDialog pops up and says that the file name is
> "testDownloadAction.do". If I try to hit Save, IE comes back with an error.
>
> Does anyone have any resources to help me understand why this is not working in IE?
>
> Thanks.
>
> -Ed.
>
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