# send\_data problem

**URL:** <https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/send-data-problem/24711>\
**Category:** rubyonrails-talk\
**Created:** [February 11, 2008, 10:18am UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/send-data-problem/24711 "2008-02-11T10:18:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![MohsinHijazee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e68b1a/32.png) [@MohsinHijazee](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/MohsinHijazee)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2008, 10:18am UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/send-data-problem/24711/1 "2008-02-11T10:18:11Z")

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Hi! &nbsp;&nbsp;Following call for sending data does not sets the HTTP Content-Type header under Rails 2.02:

send\_data(csv\_string,:filename =\> @entity.name+".csv", :type =\> 'text/ csv; charset=UTF-8')

Can anyone help why its happening?

Regards, Mohsin