Jad file download link for my website

Question

I am putting up a small website via webs.com for me and my friends that could also be accessible via wap, i.e. mobile internet, and I want to add links to my site that downloads .jar files. I uploaded the files on my site, and links to the .jar files went fine, but I also need links for .jad files (for some mobile phones that require .jad files FIRST then .jar). I tried doing a regular link for the .jad files, but it simply displayed the content of the .jad file. It wasn't installed or downloaded. What should I do? Or am I at a wrong website? Thanks!

Answer 1

JAD files are textbased. Their default content type is text/vnd.sun.j2me.app-descriptor. Every webbrowser will by default display responses with a content type matching text/* inline.

The best solution is to configure/change the response header to include a Content-Disposition with a value of attachment. This way the webbrowser will be forced to pop a Save As dialogue. It's unclear what server side programming language you're using in the website, but if it is for example PHP, then you can do so:

header('Content-Disposition: attachment;filename="' . $jad_file_name . '"');

Or if it is Java/Servlet:

response.setHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachment;filename=\"" + jadFileName + "\"");

Or if you are using none, them you may try it with an .htaccess in the same directory of the JAD files:

<Files *.jad>
    Header set Content-Disposition attachment
</Files>