It is Version 5.0.27. uddav wrote: > > Hello Everyone, > > I have set up a Virtual Directory (Directory Listing) in Tomcat. We use > this to distribute documents and reports. The way we do is put the > documents to be distributed in this directory on the server and all our > user go to this virtual directory by accessing a URL and view/get their > reports. > > I have put a .xls file in there, and when we open it - it opens in the > browser itself and what it seems to have is junk data in it. (unreadable). > However instead of clicking it to open, if we do "Save the target as.." > and save it in the local machine and change the extension from .htm to > .xls the report comes to full-life and its all good. > > We used to have similar virtual directory in Apache before. I remember > that if we clicked on the .xls report, instead of opening it in the > browser, it would begin downloading it to the local machine as an Excel > file, so that was very good. > > Is there any settings in Tomcat which we can set so that instead of > opening files in the browser itself, it would download it to the users' PC > with the correct file extensions? > > Any insight and recommendations in this regard would be greatly > appreciated. > > Thanks in Advance > Uddav > > >
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