[daivagna]

i have provided a download facility...in my apps..but prob. is that i am setting MIME...or content type of .txt files as text/plain...but my prob. is that except txt file every file succesfully downloaded but only there is prob. with txt...coz browser is not able to treat it as txt and when i try to open that txt file which i downloaded it shows html content inside....what tio do????

set the mime type to be application/octet-stream. that should force it to download any file.

[daivagna]

hello sir,
i did the same thing application,octet-stream,,,but still facing d same prob...so i tried to give "text/plain"..as a content type for the .txt files but no then also html content is coming along with my original data of .txt...so tell me what to do

have you tried having it execute this page in a new window that has no code but the download?

[daivagna]

sir in my prog i have done the same thing..i mean i have one hyperlink with the file name,when one clicks on that it redirects user to download.aspx page...where i have written download code,it works well with .doc....but it appends html contents of download.aspx into .txt file so when i try to open or save that .txt file there is a html content along with original data of .txt..this is the prob..i dnt knw whats wrong..plz help

have you tried removing the html content? When I do a download page it is typicaly a new window with no code but the download. (no html output)

[daivagna]

hello sir,
thxs for replies...but my prob solved...and just for ur information i am telling u how...I WAS SETTING CONTENT TYPE AFTER SETTING THE HEADERS...but WHEN I SET IT ABOVE ALL THE CODE IT WORKED...