Question

I can’t seem to solve this.

Originally the JSP code had a function in Javascript that would call a jsp from another server:

window.open("<%= otherServer %>/ourreports/Company/fooreport.jsp?index"+index,"Foo",options);

where otherServer was a local server (http://192.168.4.40:8080)
This worked fine, and would pop out a new window with fooreport.jsp.

The task now is to point to a jsp in the same server.
So, I changed it to

window.open("/reports/Company/fooreport.jsp?index"+index,"Foo", options);

And I would get a download the file popup instead of a page

I also tried to do all of the following:

window.location = "/reports/Company/fooreport.jsp?index="+index;
window.location.href = "/reports/Company/fooreport.jsp?index="+index;
window.location = "http://localhost:9080/reports/Company/fooreport.jsp?index="+index;
window.location.href = "http://localhost:9080/reports/Company/fooreport.jsp?index="+index;

And I still get the popup to download the fooreport.jsp to my computer.

The jsp is well-formed, has the DOCTYPE, the tags, the <%@ page declarations… It’s essentially the same jsp that was being called before

I’m using WebSphere 7.5.4 and java is 1.5

Answer 1

The problem resided in the JSP.
Calls using window.location and window.open worked fine for other JSPs.

The problem was in the “<% page” declarations.
I deleted them, so don’t remember exactly, but it had to do with Content-Type and ISO setting.
I took them all out, left only the “<% page import” declarations, and now it works correctly.