I'm generating an Excel document via Servlet. When I send the response back to the client (IE8), the "Open/Save" dialog pops up but requires users to click a choice twice before taking action. This doesn't happen in Firefox. I have no idea why this is occurring. Below is the relevant code that creates the appropriate streams.
result
contains the Excel XML.
response.setContentType("application/vnd.ms-excel");
response.setHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachment;filename=TestFile.xls");
InputStream in = new ByteArrayInputStream(result.toString().getBytes("UTF-8"));
ServletOutputStream out = response.getOutputStream();
try
{
byte[] outputByte = new byte[4096];
while(in.read(outputByte, 0, 4096) != -1)
out.write(outputByte, 0, 4096);
}
finally
{
in.close();
out.flush();
out.close();
}
EDIT I have noticed that waiting 5+ seconds before clicking an option works just fine. It seems to only ask twice when immediately clicking an option.