Hi Dave,
Thanks for your help. Unfortunately, I've tried all your suggestions, and
the thing still isn't working. I was already flushing the output stream,
but wasn't closing it - I'm doing that now. I was setting the content type,
and the length, but not the content-disposition - again, I've rectified
this. I've even changed the url so that it finishes with ".pdf", still no
joy.
I sent a previous message to the list with details of my set-up. This is
from that message (Subject: external-graphic):
"I'm using Xalan to create my .fo files from XML and XSL, then rendering
pdf's using fop (v.0.19). I'm using JDK 1.3. This is all within a servlet.
I'm using Apache and Tomcat together as web server and servlet engine. "
This problem isn't stopping me in my tracks. As I said, it works fine with
IE 5.0, but I would like to get it solved.
TIA,
Micheál
----- Original Message -----
From: Dave Frankson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 3:03 PM
Subject: Re: bit OT but..streaming PDF to browsers
> PDFs from a servlet works in all broswers but you have to remember to do
all
> of the following:
>
>
> 1.) Set the headers:
>
> response.setContentType("application/pdf");
> response.addHeader("Content-Disposition", "inline;
filename=report.pdf");
>
> (Also try to structure your URL so that the last few characters are
".pdf".
> This helps some stupid version of IE that you are returing a pdf)
>
>
> 2.) Write out the size of the pdf:
>
> response.setContentLength( pdfDoc.length );
>
>
>
> 3.) Flush your output stream:
>
> out.flush();
> out.close();
>
>
> Dave
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Micheál Healy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 8:47 AM
> Subject: Re: bit OT but..streaming PDF to browsers
>
>
> > 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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