You will also need to specify Content-disposition after setting Content-type as
setting these attributes for your response
response.setContentType("video/x-ms-wmv")
response.setHeader("Content-disposition","attachment; filename=file.wmv");
Take a look at
http://joseph.randomnetworks.com/archives/2004/10/01/making-ie-accept-file-downloads
Anyone else?
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Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 8:25 AM
Subject: Re: Request for WMV file to machine name doesn't work
> Thanks for the link. I'll have to read it and see if it addresses why
> things work when the request is to localhost, as opposed to machine name.
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>> I have tried different browsers, such as Firefox and did not have the
>> problem, but I'm not sure what in IE could be making this happen.
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> Well, there's your problem: MSIE ignores MIME type headers in favor of
> detecting the MIME type itself. There's little to nothing you can do
> about this, unless you can patch the registry on every machine that will
> be used to connect to your application.
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> This is a great resource for understanding what /should/ be happening,
> and what MSIE actually does:
> http://ppewww.ph.gla.ac.uk/~flavell/www/content-type.html
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