Downloading a CSV File

Downloading a CSV File

When downloading a csv file from my application, it appends the html code() also. I am using:

Content-Type: binary/csv
Content-Disposition: attachment;filename= test.csv

The CSV file contains..

DNO123,1,3nnec3,20050119,155,100,PALLET1
DNO123,2,3nnec3,20050119,155,12,PALLET3

<html>
<head>
<TITLE>Detail</TITLE>
<body bgcolor="#CCCCCC" leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="0"
marginheight="0">

Well there should be "synchronize" in your IDE. CVS terms:

1. Commit -> over-writes the cvs-server file with your local-file (out-going)

2. Update -> over-writes your local-file with the latest cvs-server file (in-coming)

3. Synchronize -> displays all the files that are of different version and shows you which one is new or old

Now when you update and you see a lot of garbage characters this can only mean:

1. a user committed a file that has a different encoding. You might be using UTF-8 while he is using Big5

2. OS language use is different.

3. the server is screwed ;(

Charcters like this:
DNO123,1,3nnec3,20050119,155,100,PALLET1
DNO123,2,3nnec3,20050119,155,12,PALLET3

or any character that shows on top of the document that has no meaning at all was only meant for the server and the client. If you see this, there is something wrong with how you create, commit or update stuff.

-- Steve Torrefranca

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