doesn't seem like a tomcat issue. you'd better ask in java/jsp groups. As a quick hint might use servlet in front of the jsp and whatever name you wana.
Regards, Youssef On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 3:25 AM, Jonathan Mast <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > I am writing a report generator that has the ability to generate Excel > files. The user clicks on a link (exporter.jsp), the page's content-type > has been set to "application/vnd.ms-excel" which naturally prompts the user > to either save to a file or open directly in Excel. > > It works fine, but requires the user to manually rename the generated file > from "exporter.jsp" to "whatever.xls". Furthermore, Firefox will not let > you rename the file in save dialog box, it just automatically saves the > file > as "exporter.jsp", you must rename it from the file browser. > > How do specify the output file name from within JSP? > > Btw, right clicking and selecting "save link as" allows for specifying the > file name, but the file that is created is empty. > > Thanks >
