Setting file extension

[Aron Daburn]

I am needing to send a simple text file, but with a .license extension.

My code is as follows:

  String filename = request.getParameter("hid") + ".license";
      response.setContentType("text/plain");
      response.setHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachment; filename=\"" + filename + '"');
            
      StringBuffer returnedLicense = new StringBuffer();
      byte[] b = new byte[4096];
      for (int n; (n = bufferedinputstream.read(b)) != -1 :wink:  {
          returnedLicense.append(new String(b, 0, n));
      }
            
      license.setReturnedLicense(returnedLicense.toString());
      
 
      session.setAttribute("Result", license.getReturnedLicense().replaceAll("<", "!"));
      
      out.write(license.getReturnedLicense());
  

It is saving the file with .txt. I tried removing the response.setContentType and it saved it with .html. How do you set the extension on a file to .license?

[Ben Souther]

MSIE is great at ignoring things like this.
Did you try setting the content type to 'text/license'?

If that doesn't work set the content type to something that the browser has never heard of like 'xxx/xxxx' and it will throw up a prompt saying that MSIE doesn't know what to do with this, Save or Open With?...

[Aron Daburn]

Yeah, I just tried setting its content type as the company name followed by '-license' and then that caused it to save it as a .license.

Thanks