Content-Disposition=attachment problem

[n0vembr]

hello all,
im running on a problem with my jsp page.
i have a download hyperlink that downloads pdf, csv, and/or excel formatted files. all's working fine except for the excel file..the file being saved/downloaded contains garbage characters. im using this bit of code:

response.setContentType ("application/vnd.ms-excel");
response.setHeader ("Content-Disposition", "attachment;filename=\"" + request.getParameter("file") + "\"");

hope somebody could give me some points of what the possible error could be...

thanks in advance...

[System_Error]

How are you downloading the content?

I think when I did this, I got the bytes from the content and read until there were no more bytes left..using a while loop.

[n0vembr]

hello there System_Error.

i also did something like this:

int bit = in.read(); 
while ((bit) >= 0) { 
outs.write(bit); 
bit = in.read(); 
}

i think there should be no problem with this part coz my pdf and csv files were downloaded just fine..probably there are other settings i may have overlooked... do u have any idea??

btw should there be a difference if i use

response.setContentType ("application/vnd.ms-excel");

instead of

response.setContentType ("application/excel");

[CornedBee]

"application/excel" does not exist. That would be the difference.

Byte-by-byte reading is not very efficient. I see no reason why the file should be corrupted, though. Are you sure in is a InputStream and outs is a OutputStream?

[n0vembr]

"application/excel" does not exist. That would be the difference.

Byte-by-byte reading is not very efficient. I see no reason why the file should be corrupted, though. Are you sure in is a InputStream and outs is a OutputStream?

hi CornedBee...thanks for the info..
"application/vnd.ms-excel" solved my problem..
was sure though i tried it already but still got garbage characters...
anyway it's always better to have somebody who can give the definite answer..thanks again..