Opening a file on the server

I have a request handler that generates a document on the server. It then gives the user the option to open or save the file to their machine. In the RH I set the .fDownloadFile and .fDownloadMimeType features and the user gets the option to open or save the file.My question is, how can I set the default download file name? It always defaults to Livelink.doc, or the correct mime type. I don't want it to say Livelink. What gets set to change this?

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Hi Jeff,

RequestHandler's GenerateOutput() doesn't have direct support for a specific filename. So you'll need to send a header in Execute(). Example:

Web.Write (ctxOut,"Content-disposition: attachment; filename=yourname.ext")

An alternative is to specifiy the filename in the link to the requesthandler since most browsers consider the pathinfo of the URL to determine the default filename. Example:

/livelink/livelink.exe/yourname.ext?func=yourrequest.handler

Hope this helps,

-chris

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Opening a file on the server

Posted by jlang (Lang, Jeff) on 08/15/2007 06:18 PM

I have a request handler that generates a document on the server. It then gives the user the option to open or save the file to their machine. In the RH I set the .fDownloadFile and .fDownloadMimeType features and the user gets the option to open or save the file.

My question is, how can I set the default download file name? It always defaults to Livelink.doc, or the correct mime type. I don't want it to say Livelink. What gets set to change this?

Jeff Lang

Thanks, that helped.