Wayne,
You do the same thing as you would do in ASP. Use the Response object, clear
the existing headers, output the headers with your content-length,
content-disposition, etc, and then spit out the bytes for the pdf. That way,
you avoid meta-tags (and instead use the true headers), so it will work on
more browsers. To support even more browsers, change
<a href="download.aspx?docid=4" target=_new>Click</a>
to
<a href="download.aspx?docid=4&fake=.pdf" target=_new>Click</a>
As some old, non standard browsers allow a document extension to override
the mime headers.
If you need a code example, let me know and I'll send you one.
Erick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wayne Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 11:16 AM
Subject: [DOTNET] PDF Downloads
Hi all,
Great list this!! Well impressed after 4 hours!! ;)
I have an asp.net app written using c#. What I'd like to do is when
someone clicks a hyperlink, say:
<a href="download.aspx?docid=4" target=_new>Click</a>
I'd like that to open a new page, run a db query which returns the
filename of that doc, and triggers the download of the pdf. After
looking on the web and looking at the old "content-disposition" meta tag
and the binarywrite method that were prevalent in ASP3 that we used to
use, there doesn't seem to be any new way?
Maybe I'm being naïve thinking there would be a new method with .NET! :)
Anyway if anyone knows the best way to go about this procedure it would
be much appreciated.
Thanks and long live the list!
Wayne Lee
Evident Systems Ltd
SQL/.NET Senior Developer
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