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Ooooh! interesting. I actually got it working using <br />
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response.setContentType(\&quot;<wbr />text/x-set<wbr />ext\&quot;);<br />
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but I think I like yours better. Did you make that up or is it a real ContentType? I don't see it listed in <a href="http://www.utoronto.ca/web/htmldocs/book/book-3ed/appb/mimetype.html" rel="ugc">http://www.utoronto.ca/web/htmldocs/book/book-3ed/appb/mimetype.html</a>, but that list could be old.
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Ooooh! interesting. I actually got it working using

response.setContentType(\"text/x-setext\");

but I think I like yours better. Did you make that up or is it a real ContentType? I don't see it listed in http://www.utoronto.ca/web/htmldocs/book/book-3ed/appb/mimetype.html [http://www.utoronto.ca/web/htmldocs/book/book-3ed/appb/mimetype.html], but that list could be old.

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i found it on the website linked, but there would be a lot more content types then listed on that page, and new files types are created all the time
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i found it on the website linked, but there would be a lot more content types then listed on that page, and new files types are created all the time

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I am trying to create a jsp program to force the &quot;download&quot; dialog, not open the file in the user's browser. I'm having trouble. I have the following code, but it opens the file in the browser anyway. The file is just an Automated Clearing House transaction file which the user has to save to a special location, so there is little sense (an preferable NOT) to see the file contents. What can I do?<br />
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&lt;%@page trimDirectiveWhitespaces=&quot;<wbr />true&quot;%&gt;<br />
&lt;%<br />
&nbsp; &nbsp; response.setHeader(&quot;Conten<wbr />t-disposit<wbr />ion&quot;, &quot;attachment; filename=ACH.txt&quot;);<br />
&nbsp; &nbsp; response.setContentType(&quot;t<wbr />ext/plain&quot;<wbr />);<br />
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%&gt;&lt;%@ page import=&quot;java.io.*&quot;%&gt;<br />
&lt;%<br />
out.println(&quot;101 .... etc\r);<br />
out.println(&quot; .... &quot;);<br />
%&gt;
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I am trying to create a jsp program to force the "download" dialog, not open the file in the user's browser. I'm having trouble. I have the following code, but it opens the file in the browser anyway. The file is just an Automated Clearing House transaction file which the user has to save to a special location, so there is little sense (an preferable NOT) to see the file contents. What can I do?

<%@page trimDirectiveWhitespaces="true"%>
<%
    response.setHeader("Content-disposition", "attachment; filename=ACH.txt");
    response.setContentType("text/plain");

%><%@ page import="java.io.*"%>
<%
out.println("101 .... etc\r);
out.println(" .... ");
%>

how to force download of file from website

JavaServer Pages (JSP) allow the development of dynamically generated web pages. It uses the Java programming language; JSP pages are translated into servlets at runtime, with each servlet being cached and reused until the JSP is modified. JSP allows Java code to be interleaved with static web markup content, so the resulting page can be compiled and executed on the server to deliver the content.

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