I can't seem to get fop to show me a pdf wit IE 5.5. Am I doing something
wrong? This is just for general info - it's working fine with 5.0.
Micheál Healy
----- Original Message -----
From: Dave Frankson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 2:43 PM
Subject: Re: bit OT but..streaming PDF to browsers
> Actually it is the sloppy way IE deals with MIME types. At the first
> hit, IE determines that it can't handle the content type and an external
> plugin needs to handle the request. So it discards the data after reading
> the http header and does a second hit passing the entire thing to Acrobat.
>
> We are using FOP to generate some reports that take 15 minutes to build,
and
> this is the biggest performance hit.
>
> Dave
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alex McLintock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 4:08 AM
> Subject: Re: bit OT but..streaming PDF to browsers
>
>
> > --- David Frankson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > I get pdfs from servlets to work fine in IE, but I never have overcome
> > > the 2 hits per pdf. Is there a solution to this?
> >
> > I've noticed the "two hits" issue but always assumed it was due to my
> > rubbish proxy configuration.
> >
> > It may be that the first request is hust a "head" request to determine
> > the datestamp of the response and thus to determine whether or not
> > it can retrieve the file from its cache. (It is presumably seeing that
> > the datestamp is later than the cached version and thus requesting
> > the whole response the second time.)
> >
> > So one possibility is to check for a head request and when you get it
> > to NOT generate the PDF but just output the headers saying that the
> > file would be new if you hadn't just done a head request.
> >
> > This is a bit off topic so learning how to do this is left as an
exercise
> > for the reader.
> >
> > Or if you are in London you can pay me to do it for you :-)
> >
> > Alex
> >
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