Hi,

Can anybody tell me how to force a file to be dowloaded from the server as a "Save As"rather than opening as an html doc, i am creating a .txt file via a jsp page and want to have the user save this file to their machines as a .txt file fo input into pda's etc.

Thanks

Mark

Dear Mark,
There are several ways to accomplish this, but not one sure way across all browsers and platforms. The basic way is to use a scripting language to open the file then pipe it to the browser with a non-existant MIME type. Most browsers will then prompt to save the file.

Regards,
Brent