Internet Explorer and serving files

[Daniel Blumenthal <da...@wordchamp.com>]

I'm trying to get my server to send an MP3 file to the client, but it's just
not working on Internet Explorer (Firefox works fine).  The user clicks a
link like this:
 
<a href="/myapp/GetMP3.do?id=1">download file</a>
 
And whereas Firefox opens up a "save as" window, IE forwards you to an error
404.  I've read about IE mime-sniffing, but is there any solution?  (I've
also tried sub-classing DownloadAction, but to no avail)
 
The servlet code looks like:
 
response.reset();
response.setContentType("audio/x-mpeg");    // I've also tried
"application/x-download"
response.setContentLength((int)filelen);
response.setHeader("Content-Disposition","attachment; filename=foo.mp3");
 
BufferedInputStream in = new BufferedInputStream(...);
BufferedOutputStream out = new
BufferedOutputStream(response.getOutputStream());
 
int count;
byte buffer = new byte[1024];
while ((count = in.read(buffer,0,1024)) != -1)
      out.write(buffer,0,count);
 
out.flush();
out.close();
response.flushBuffer();
 
 

Re: Internet Explorer and serving files

[Ayusman Dikshit <ma...@gmail.com>]

try this on IE:
<a target="_blank" href="/myapp/GetMP3.do?id=1"
>
> >download file</a>


the content type seems fine.

Hope this works.
Regards
Ayusman



On 10/30/06, Daniel Blumenthal <da...@wordchamp.com> wrote:
>
> I'm trying to get my server to send an MP3 file to the client, but it's
> just
> not working on Internet Explorer (Firefox works fine).  The user clicks a
> link like this:
>
> <a href="/myapp/GetMP3.do?id=1">download file</a>
>
> And whereas Firefox opens up a "save as" window, IE forwards you to an
> error
> 404.  I've read about IE mime-sniffing, but is there any solution?  (I've
> also tried sub-classing DownloadAction, but to no avail)
>
> The servlet code looks like:
>
> response.reset();
> response.setContentType("audio/x-mpeg");    // I've also tried
> "application/x-download"
> response.setContentLength((int)filelen);
> response.setHeader("Content-Disposition","attachment; filename=foo.mp3");
>
> BufferedInputStream in = new BufferedInputStream(...);
> BufferedOutputStream out = new
> BufferedOutputStream(response.getOutputStream());
>
> int count;
> byte buffer = new byte[1024];
> while ((count = in.read(buffer,0,1024)) != -1)
>       out.write(buffer,0,count);
>
> out.flush();
> out.close();
> response.flushBuffer();
>
>
>
>


-- 
TIA,
Ayusman