IE ignoring newlines and spaces

Question

Hi All,
I wrote a servlet to upload a file. While viewing the attachment in the IE browser, it's ignoring the newlines in the file. The same attachment when viewed in Firefox and Opera browsers, it's rendering the file contents properly. From this I conclude that this is not the problem with the code. I feel IE is ignoring the newlines present in the attached file. Could you please suggest me a way to get rid of this problem? Is there any way to instruct IE not to ignore newlines? The code responsible for printing the output is,
response.setContentType(attachment.getAttachMimeType());
response.setContentLength(attachment.getAttachObject().length);
response.setHeader("Content-Disposition" , "attachment; filename=" + attachment.getAttachFileName());
byte[] buff = attachment.getAttachObject();
ServletOutputStream out = response.getOutputStream();      
out.write(buff);
out.close();
This is very urgent. Your help is highly appreciated.
Thanks,
Tarun .

Answer 1

My application has the requirement to upload any type of file and view that attached file. What baffles me here is, though the content-type is "application/octet-stream" IE is not prompting me a dialog box asking me to the choose the application through which I've to open the attached file. I've set the header i.e "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=" and let's assume that the filename is "boot.properties", so IE should prompt me a dialog box, instead it's trying to display the file contents in the browser. When I attach a word document, IE is trying to display the file contents in the browser, but it's reading the MIME type as "application/msword". For files whose MIME type is "application/msword", IE should open them in MS-Word. Why my IE is behaving strange? It's trying to display the contents of the file in the browser irrespective of the MIME type. How can I get rid of this problem?