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Posted to users@tomcat.apache.org by Antonio Fiol Bonnín <fi...@terra.es> on 2003/06/27 18:07:26 UTC

Re: download of csv file

Shanta B wrote:

>Hi
>  We have a servlet which will download csv file from server.It works fine
>in some browser. The file type CSV is standard Excel format file. When i
>click on the link 'file open/save as' dialog appears, i see only html as
>supported filetype. Why? I expected CSV file as filetype here. 
>
>This behvaiour is not true for all machines. Only on few PCs i see this
>problem? Is there any browser setting?
>
>I verified the application association with filöetype extension (CSV), it is
>MS-Excel. 
>
>Thanks
>Shanta.B 
>  
>

Use response.setContentType("text/csv");