How to open a file with a link ?

Question

I am using servlets to design an application.
The application supports uploading and downloading of .DOC and .RTF files.
My problem is that I am opening an uploaded file via a link.
OPen File
The above is also working fine and opens the file in the IE browser.
But my problem is that I want to open the file with MS-Word...as is done on many resume-building websites.
1) How am I supposed to do that ?
2) Can I specify ContentType="application/msword" in a link ?
Please Help !!

Answer 1

I did the foll. w.r.t a docbase.
A docbase stores documents and assigns an unique id to each one. The foll. is a code snippet that opens a document's contents in a browser.
public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException
Connection conn = null;
Statement stm;
ServletOutputStream sos = null;
ResultSet res;
// .... get id of document u want to open
query = "select id from .. where object_name = ' xx' .."
res= stm.executeQuery(query);
Blob blob = res.getBlob("_content"); // this will get content of document identified by id
int blobLen = (int)blob.length();
//the foll. is the part u need..
if (blobLen > 0) {
InputStream contents = blob.getBinaryStream();
response.setContentType("application/msword"); // MS Word
byte[] buf = new byte[blobLen];
int length = -1;
       while ((length = contents.read(buf)) != -1){
          sos = response.getOutputStream();
          sos.write(buf,0,blobLen);
sos.flush();
System.out.println("Doc Received");
contents.close();
  res.close();
  conn.close();
}