i am using seam-gen. i am trying to dowload a file or data from server as file. my code is FACELETS CODE: <h:commandButton value="donwload file" actionListener="#{ERegReportHandlerAction.downloadReportFile}"/> Sessionbean Function: public void downloadReportFile(){ ExternalContext exContext=FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getExternalContext(); javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse response = ((javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse)exContext.getResponse()); //response.setContentType("application/x-download"); response.setContentType("text/plain"); response.setHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachment; filename=" + "test.csv"); try{ OutputStream out = response.getOutputStream( ); byte[] arr=("This is the file data.").getBytes(); response.setContentLength(arr.length); out.write(arr); out.close(); }catch(Exception e){ System.out.println("Error: " + e.getMessage() ); } } -------------------------------------------------------------------- file is downloaded but when i open it, i have the contents written by me(i.e This is the file data) plus the whole html page source code from where i pressed the download button. any help regarding this plz. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4024221#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...