Make your URL end with ".pdf", a dummy parameter will do. IE looks a lot
closer at the URL ending than at the content type.
Best Regards,
Paulo Soares
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To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 11:28
Subject: [iText-questions] Pdf can be viewed after saved but not embed
inside browser
Dear All,
My application wants to get some data from database and display the result
in a table in pdf format within a browser. I'm using a structs framework
and all the packaging of the data is done within my service class. When I
forward to my JSP, I invoke a servelet using the following code:
//jsp file
<%@ page contentType="application/pdf" %>
<%@ page import="javax.servlet.*, javax.servlet.http.*" %>
<%
getServletConfig().getServletContext().getRequestDispatcher("/servlet/Repor
tServlet").forward(request, response);
%>
I did not use the servlet mapping because I already have another servlet
dealing with *.pdf in another way, I want to specifically invoke this
servlet class from the .jsp.
In my servlet, I do the usual settting and try to output to the browser as
streaming PDF. But the browser keep asking me to save the file and it has
extension .do with it. If I save to disk, I can open the pdf and see the
file the way I intended it to be. If I set the Header with
content-disposition("attachement;"report.pdf"), then I get the popup asking
me to either save or open. If I open, Adobe Reader will be invoked, but I
want the pdf to come within the browser. If I sent content-disposition to
"inline", then I'll get a broken .gif image in my popup for IE5.5 and some
error that crashes the browser in IE6.0. Do you know what went wrong?
// ReportServlet
*snip*
//get my prepared data.
Context context = (Context) request.getAttribute(some_name);
ByteArrayOutputStream os = (ByteArrayOutputStream)
context.getResult().elementAt(0);
byte[] content = os.toByteArray();
response.reset();
response.setContentType("application/pdf");
response.setContentLength(content.length);
response.setHeader("Content-Disposition","inline;filename=report.pdf"
);
response.setHeader("Expires", "0");
response.setHeader("Cache-Control", "must-revalidate, post-check=0,
pre-check=0");
response.setHeader("Cache-Control", "max-age=30");
response.setHeader("Pragma", "public");
response.getOutputStream().write(content);
response.getOutputStream().flush();
response.getOutputStream().close();
*end of code*
I've read the online help and tried all sorts of combinations including
setContentType, setContentLength and all kinds of header setting but still
can't resolve the problem. I even tried to active-X control setting on the
IE.
If I do everything in my structs action and forward to a .jsp, will it make
a difference? I need to resolve this problem soon. Any kind of help is
appreciated.
Thanks & Regards,
Anthony
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