Opening pdf and excell on an acrobat or xls sheet from a servlet

Question

Hi all
I have a servlet that generates a pdf or excell as per the file type passed , the problem i am facing is the excell and the pdf file opens on the browser itself. Is there anyway of opening the pdf / excell on their applicaitons (ie on Acrobat reader or Microsoft excell). Or promting the user to save.
regards
riaz
NOTE: My servlet code is as below
public synchronized void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException
Log.skip();
Log.write("Servlet posting...");
try
     String filename = request.getParameter("DownLoad");
     File file = new File(filename);
String lsContentDisposition = "inline; +filename=\"" filename + "\";";
response.setContentType("application/pdf");
     response.setContentLength((int)file.length());
     response.setHeader("Content-Disposition", lsContentDisposition);
java.io.FileInputStream fis = new java.io.FileInputStream(file);
     int i = 0;
     javax.servlet.ServletOutputStream out =response.getOutputStream();
     while((i=fis.read()) != -1)
          out.write(i);
          out.flush();
          out.close();
          fis.close();
          response.flushBuffer();
     catch(Throwable t)
     System.out.println("---DownLoadFile--:" + t.getMessage() );
     }

Answer 1

Probably the browser for security reason will not open those application unless the user specifically ask it to do it. One way you can do is put a hyperlink to those files in your generated pages and let the user click on it, at which moment depending on the configuration of the web browser will open the right application.
Hope this help.