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Hello together!
I have a special question on downloads:
I developed an intranet-application with JSP, which stores documents on the server and allows the user to search for them and download the documents he wants. My problem is: I offer the documents as an HTML-link in the <a href=""...>-fashion. Unfortunately with most document-types the browser immediately opens a new window showing the content as ascii, which is not nice with pictures for example. Instead I would like either opening the download&save-dialog like choosing "save target as" in the browser, or, even better, opening the document over the intranet but with the correct application (in this case, the registered graphics-program). Can you help me with this? I would be very pleased. Greetings, DreamiX.

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DreamiX, i have used this nice PHP code:

<?php

//Put this script in the header of a file

//You can submit $Dir, $File_Name, $File_Extension by another script



$filename="filename";

$fileextension="zip";

$filedir = "c:/elias/zips/";



$fnsave = "$filename.$fileextension";

$fnread = "$filedir$filename.$fileextension";



header("Content-disposition: filename=$fnsave");

header("Content-type: application/force-download");

readfile("$fnread"); 

?>

i'm betting the "force-download" mime-type is forcing the browser to treat every file as plain/text.

A little jsp-code would be nice, since my own didn't work.
That's the download.jsp:

<%
String strFile = request.getParameter("file");
response.setContentType("application/msword");
%>
<jsp:include page='<%=strFile%>' flush="true" />

But instead of downloading the file, I just get a 2-bytes-download.jsp?!

No example code necessary any more, I wrote a servlet that works.

The MIME-Type "application/force-download" is fine, but there is one further problem: if i download the files, they are mostly correct, but in some cases the filename is replaced. The file-extension remains the original one, but the file name is replaced by "download", which is the name of my servlet. E.g. if I have a file "picture.pcx" and try to download it with my servlet the download-dialog asks for downloading "download.pcx". The file itself is the same as the original, but the name changed. How can I prevent this?