Streaming files through a Servlet to macintosh clients

Hi,
I have a servlet which streams diffrent kind of files to the client. I works perfectly with Windows and IE5.0,6.0 and Firefox. But on macintosh (IE5.2) the file name is the name of the servlet. In example if the servlet is named getFile, the file name used by the macintosh client to save the file will be getFile.
Does anyone know the trick to make macintosh clients corretly resolve the filename/mime type??
Thanks

I finally figured out that setting my conent type like this:
response.setContentType("application/octet-stream");
works.
But now I'm stuck with another little problem, Mac does not seem to convert the %20 is filenames to spaces.
Any suggestions?

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