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I'm writing simple web app which generates simple CSS file for user.

I've mapped servlet for writing CSS on specific tag, and depending of the user's session attributes, I use PrintWriter for generating CSS stylesheet.

Problem: Stylesheet doesn't have any effect. Chrone shows it was downloaded (inspect element -> network), but it doesn't have any effect on my htmlpage.

In html, CSS is defined by: <link href="stylesheet.css" rel="stylesheet" type='text/css'>.

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That will happen if the response content type is (implicitly) set to something else than text/css. You can easily verify it in response headers section in HTTP traffic monitor.

Explicitly set it before writing any byte to the response body.

response.setContentType("text/css");
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Thanx, that solved the problem! I totally forgot about that. :)

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