Thread: Facing problem with posting Excel file for download - Content in browser

I am trying to post an Excel file to download from a servlet to a JSP. The content is written properly but to the IE browser and not in an Excel. I even tried giving the ContentType as Word/CSV etc. But nothing works, the content gets displayed only in the browser.

PLEASE HELP.

Code snippet in calling JSP:

DownloadServlet downServlet = new DownloadServlet();
downServlet.download(response);

Code in Servlet:

public class DownloadServlet extends HttpServlet{

public void download(HttpServletResponse response) throws IOException {
/PrintWriter out = response.getWriter( );
response.setContentType("text/html");
out.println("<H1>Hello from a Servlet</h2>"); /

/HSSFWorkbook wb = new HSSFWorkbook();
HSSFSheet sheet = wb.createSheet("Sheet1");/


String strData = "This is a Test for Download";
byte[] b = strData.getBytes();

//response.reset();

response.setHeader("Content-disposition", "attachment; filename=" + "Download.xls");
response.setContentType( "application/msword" );
//response.addHeader( "Content-Description", "Download Excel file" );

ServletOutputStream out = response.getOutputStream();
out.write(b);

//out.flush();
out.close();
}
}

set the content type like this and try..
response.setContentType("application/vnd.ms-excel")
and uncomment this line
out.flush();