Forcing the downloading of a file

From: Rogue Chameleon (rogue.chameleon_at_gmail.com)
Date: 09/30/04 

Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 11:11:37 -0400

Hi all

I apologize for the vagueness of the subject line... but it's the best that
I could do. Here is what I am trying to accomplish:

Our users will be receiving automated emails from a web server that will
contain an encrypted file attachment. The file has been encrypted with a
public key. For the file to be useful, it will obviously need to be
decrypted.

What I'd like to do is have a web servlet do the encryption for the users.
Once they get the email, they detach the file, and upload it to the servlet
(using <input type="file">), the decryption will occur. Immediately after
the decryption, I want to "force" the file back to the user. That is, I
want them to be immediately presented with the "download file" dialog box.

Can this be done? If so.... how? 

-- 
Rogue Chameleon...

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