Contenttype with XP sp2

[Hans]

Hi!

I have an asp site where I have com+ components that flushes a tab separated
textfile to the client. Normally the user gets a save as dialog and can save
the file. After installing XP sp2 there seems to be problems. The user will
not be able to download the file (will not see the save as dialog either). I
don't want the document to be presented in the browser.

As it is today I have this code (the sHeader and sBody is a header and sBody
is the actual data). This is not done inside the ASP file it is done in the
COM+ component activated from an asp file.

GetObjectContext("Response").contentType = "application/save"
GetObjectContext("Response").AddHeader "Content-Disposition", "attachement;
filename=export.txt;"
GetObjectContext("Response").Write sHeader & sBody

I have tested setting contentType="text/html" and "text/plain" but this
openes the data in the browser and I need to save the file to disk. I cannot
even use right click and save target as because I have javascript validating
and setting values before the request of the export file is sent.

What I want is the save as dialog to always show.

Regards
/Hans

[Mark Schupp]

> GetObjectContext("Response").AddHeader "Content-Disposition",
"attachement;

"attachment" is misspelled, s/b

GetObjectContext("Response").AddHeader "Content-Disposition", "attachment;
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Hi!

I have an asp site where I have com+ components that flushes a tab separated textfile to the client. Normally the user gets a save as dialog and can save the file. After installing XP sp2 there seems to be problems. The user will not be able to download the file (will not see the save as dialog either). I don't want the document to be presented in the browser.

As it is today I have this code (the sHeader and sBody is a header and sBody is the actual data). This is not done inside the ASP file it is done in the COM+ component activated from an asp file.

GetObjectContext("Response").contentType = "application/save"
GetObjectContext("Response").AddHeader "Content-Disposition", "attachement; filename=export.txt;"
GetObjectContext("Response").Write sHeader & sBody

I have tested setting contentType="text/html" and "text/plain" but this
openes the data in the browser and I need to save the file to disk. I cannot even use right click and save target as because I have javascript validating and setting values before the request of the export file is sent.

What I want is the save as dialog to always show.

Regards
/Hans

[Hans]

He-he I'm flushing! This code has been out for years (and been working) and
all the time attachment was misspelled. I changed it and it now works on XP
sp2 (I could also get it to work setting an unknown extension for the file
like export.abc).

Thanks Mark!

Regards
/Hans