File Download Issue in IE

[Vijay Chandran]

Dear Friends,

I'm trying to write a file download method in Struts (v1.1) action. I need to download a plain text file but with different extension (For example: test.reg) Following is the code snippet:

public ActionForward downloadFile(ActionMapping mapping, ActionForm form, HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) {
     String fileName = "fileName.reg";
     byte[] fileContent = test.getFileContent(); // Test is a POJO class.
     response.setContentType("text/plain");
     File regFile = new File(fileName);
     org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils.writeByteArrayToFile(regFile, fileContent);
     response.setHeader("Content-disposition", "attachment;filename="+fileName);
     response.setHeader("Cache-Control","no-cache");
     response.setHeader("Pragma","no-cache");
     outStream = response.getOutputStream();
     fileContent = FileUtils.readFileToByteArray(regFile);
     org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils.write(fileContent, outStream);
     org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils.closeQuietly(outStream);
}

As soon as i click the download button, the above method is called and 'Open/Save/Cancel' pop-up is displayed. When i click 'Open', the IE browser displays all the contents properly in the new window. But if i click save i'm getting an error like this : "Internet Explorer cannot download testAction.do from localhost."
I'm able to download the file in Chrome browser but not able to download it in Internet Explorer v8. I cant find any exception stack traces in any logs.

Kindly provide your help in resolving the issue.

Thanks,
Vijay