write Excel through servlet

From:
"finecur" <finecur@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
4 Apr 2007 21:07:39 -0700
Message-ID:
<1175746059.463148.176930@e65g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>
Here is my servlet:

public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request,
          HttpServletResponse response)
          throws ServletException, IOException{

        response.setContentType("application/vnd.ms-excel");

        response.addHeader("Pragma", "no-cache");
        response.setHeader("Cache-Control","no-cache");
                    response.setDateHeader ("Expires", 0);

                    PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
        out.println("<html>");
        out.println("<body>");
        out.println("<table border=1>");
        out.println("<tr>");
        out.println("<th>A</th>");
        out.println("<th>B</th>");
        out.println("</table>");
        out.println("</body>");
        out.println("</html>");
           }

When I call it from http://www.mydomain.com/myservlet.do?mypara=1 in
IE 7, it says

"Do you want to open or save this file?
Name:myservlet_do?mypara=1
Type:Microsoft Ecel Worksheet, 733
Form:www.mydomain.com
"

Then I click "Open",

but it says" Can not open the file", and the IE page went black.

Does anyone know why?

Thanks,

ff

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