Excel opening problem in Tomcat 5.0

[Indrayani Bhoir]

Hi All,

i am working on web application deployed on Tomcat 5.0. i have jsp page in which link for excel sheet is there.
<a href="Chain.xls">Chain</a>

when i click on this link ..bin junk data is displayed in browser in place of excel sheet data. If we open html page containing same link direactly it works fine. but after deploying it as webapplication it not working.

regards,

indu

[William Brogden]

The default web.xml file has a bunch of <mime-mapping> entries giving the mime-type to be associated with each file extension when served by the default servlet.

Probably you need to add one to associate xls with whatever correct mime-type for excel is.

Bill