Content-disposition question

[Alex Nitulescu]

Hi. First of all, I *HAVE* to express my annoyance with how badly (at least)
this content thing is documented in MSDN. There's no head, nor tail to it.

Anyway, I have this code in a form named "Download.aspx" . There's all there
is to it - no UI, nothing else. This is all the code.
_______________ _______________ _______________ ______________
'Retrieve the path of the file to download, and create a FileInfo object to
read its properties
Dim strPath As String = Server.MapPath( Request.Params( "File"))
Dim objFileInfo As FileInfo = New FileInfo(strPat h)

'Clear the current output content from the buffer
Response.Clear( )

'Add the header that specifies the default filename for the Download/SaveAs
dialog
Response.AddHea der("Content-Disposition", "attachment filename=" &
objFileInfo.Nam e)

'Add the header that specifies the file size, so that the browser can show
the download progress
Response.AddHea der("Content-Length", objFileInfo.Len gth.ToString())

'Specify that the response is a stream that cannot be read by the client and
must be downloaded
Response.Conten tType = "applicatio n/octet-stream"

'Send the file stream to the client
Response.WriteF ile(objFileInfo .FullName)

'Stop the execution of this page
Response.End()
_______________ _______________ _______________ ______________

In another form I have for instance this anchor: <a
href="Download. aspx?File=/aspnetprojects/vsnet/ThePhile/Old.txt">

As you can see, I'm passing to Download.aspx the file Old.txt. However, the
dialog box shows the filename as being "Download.a spx" instead. Still, if I
press okay, the *CORRECT* file is downloaded, only with the wrong name
(Download.aspx instead of Old.txt). I checked my code in debug, and
objFileInfo is perfect. What can I do ? Is this a known bug ? I searched on
the net and I haven't found any fix or any bug report concerning this
behaviour.

I have IE6 with the latest and greatest updates, and XPSP2.

Thank you,
Alex

[Alex Nitulescu]

Please disregard this message - I found the reason - I was missing a ";"
after the word "attachment "

Instead of
Response.AddHea der("Content-Disposition", "attachment filename=" &
objFileInfo.Nam e)

now I have
Response.AddHea der("Content-Disposition", "attachment ; filename=" &
objFileInfo.Nam e)

and it works.

Thanks !
Alex

"Alex Nitulescu" <RE************ ***********@yah oo.com> wrote in message
news:uH******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP10.phx.gbl...

Hi. First of all, I *HAVE* to express my annoyance with how badly (at
least) this content thing is documented in MSDN. There's no head, nor tail
to it.

Anyway, I have this code in a form named "Download.aspx" . There's all
there is to it - no UI, nothing else. This is all the code.
_______________ _______________ _______________ ______________
'Retrieve the path of the file to download, and create a FileInfo object
to read its properties
Dim strPath As String = Server.MapPath( Request.Params( "File"))
Dim objFileInfo As FileInfo = New FileInfo(strPat h)

'Clear the current output content from the buffer
Response.Clear( )

'Add the header that specifies the default filename for the
Download/SaveAs dialog
Response.AddHea der("Content-Disposition", "attachment filename=" &
objFileInfo.Nam e)

'Add the header that specifies the file size, so that the browser can show
the download progress
Response.AddHea der("Content-Length", objFileInfo.Len gth.ToString())

'Specify that the response is a stream that cannot be read by the client
and must be downloaded
Response.Conten tType = "applicatio n/octet-stream"

'Send the file stream to the client
Response.WriteF ile(objFileInfo .FullName)

'Stop the execution of this page
Response.End()
_______________ _______________ _______________ ______________

In another form I have for instance this anchor: <a
href="Download. aspx?File=/aspnetprojects/vsnet/ThePhile/Old.txt">

As you can see, I'm passing to Download.aspx the file Old.txt. However,
the dialog box shows the filename as being "Download.a spx" instead. Still,
if I press okay, the *CORRECT* file is downloaded, only with the wrong
name (Download.aspx instead of Old.txt). I checked my code in debug, and
objFileInfo is perfect. What can I do ? Is this a known bug ? I searched
on the net and I haven't found any fix or any bug report concerning this
behaviour.

I have IE6 with the latest and greatest updates, and XPSP2.

Thank you,
Alex