Re: Problem displaying PDF in IE6 from Tomcat using the ActiveX R eader Plug-in
Some more info to respond to the earlier responses 1) We're seeing more evidence this is a problem with Reader 6.0.1 (or the 6.0.2 patch). We have a PC with Reader 6.0.0 that works Ok, as well as a PC with 5.0. Our company has done a mass upgrade to Reader 6.0.1 and IE 6.0.2, so these PCs are not the norm. 2) No SSL is being used at this point (but it will eventually). 3) No compression (that I know of -- unless Tomcat is doing it for us). 4) Our JSP is supposed to be a generic file downloader, handling Word, Excel, PDF, etc. Hence the URL ends in .jsp vs. the real file extension. 5) Here's a typical response we're getting in IE: HTTP/1.0 200 OK Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 20:33:26 GMT Server: Apache Tomcat/4.0.6 (HTTP/1.1 Connector) Content-Type: application/pdf;charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Length: 156483 Content-disposition: attachement; filename=Germany.pdf expires: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT Connection: close Thanks, Aman Raheja Phillip Qin wrote: Where do you generate the pdf? In servlet? The link has to be end with .pdf (but before any query string) in order for acrobat reader active-x to kick in. -Original Message- From: Aman Raheja [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: November 16, 2004 9:27 AM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: Problem displaying PDF in IE6 from Tomcat using the ActiveX R eader Plug-in We did set the Security level to low on IE. More suggestions? Thanks Aman Raheja Phillip Qin wrote: There are security and privacy settings in IE affect PDF generation. BTW, ensurethe link before query string ends with .pdf -Original Message- From: Aman Raheja [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: November 15, 2004 1:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Problem displaying PDF in IE6 from Tomcat using the ActiveX Reader Plug-in Problem: When we try to display a dynamically generated PDF file, IE launches the Adobe Acrobat Reader Plugin, but then just a blank page is displayed and the IE status says Done. No error message is displayed. No error is generated in the System Event logs. The issue seems to be that every request to request to Tomcat for the PDF send back the request with charset=ISO-8859-1 in the Content-type Header. We want to figure out a way to verify that this is the issue. One way might be to somehow get Tomcat to not append the Character Set in the header. Is there a way to do this? Environment: - Client: Windows XP or Windows 2000 - Server: Tomcat 4.0.6/JDK 1.3.1 running on Solaris and Windows XP (problem exists on both) - Adobe Reader 6.0.1 (occurs with 6.0.2 patch as well) - IE 6.0.2800 Additional Information: 1) Our URLs are formed like this: http://app.ourserver.com/appname/docViewAGN.jsp?RepoType=CID=18698Doc Name= Germanyentry=DocType=pdfcategory=Research 2) Our app is issuing GETs, not POSTs. 3) This is happening on multiple PCs. One thing we noticed is this may be somewhat Reader version dependent -- we have a few machines left with Reader 5 installed, and they do not seem to have the problem. 4) When the problem occurs, if you then launch Reader manually, the document that didn't display in the IE window is automatically displayed in the full client Reader app.!!! 5) If we set Reader to not open up PDFs in browser windows, the Reader window launches and opens the PDF file just fine. [This is a client solution, and not practical to implement across hundreds of PCs unfortunately.] 6) We actually have one PC with Windows XP, Reader 6.0.1, and IE 6.0.2 that works. Could this problem be caused by some specific Windows or IE patch? 7) We've scoured the forums and tried several things including setting all security levels to Low in IE, adding a dummy parm at the end of the URL to fool IE into launching the PDF correctly (e.g. dummy=file.pdf), and various header settings to force caching on to 30 seconds, etc. None of this had any effect. 8) Also, we saw some references to problems caused by Tomcat 4.0.6 adding charset=ISO-8859-1 to the Content-Type header in the response. How can we override this to see if that's the problem? Thanks Aman Raheja - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] !DSPAM:419a0e4b161771045017228! - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem displaying PDF in IE6 from Tomcat using the ActiveX R eader Plug-in
Have you tried using links like the following: http://yourhost.com/webappcontext/download.jsp/Germany.pdf The idea is that tomcat will find the JSP download.jsp and execute it, and since the link ends with the file name, some browsers will better detect the pdf reader launch. If you need some params passed in, your link would look like: http://yourhost.com/webappcontext/download.jsp/Germany.pdf?abc=xyzxyz=abc I don't know if your headers have a typo in your email or in production, but you have an invalid Content-Disposition header (misspelled attachment as attachement) which would be a problem, too. David - Original Message - From: Aman Raheja [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tomcat Users List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2004 8:47 AM Subject: Re: Problem displaying PDF in IE6 from Tomcat using the ActiveX R eader Plug-in Some more info to respond to the earlier responses 1) We're seeing more evidence this is a problem with Reader 6.0.1 (or the 6.0.2 patch). We have a PC with Reader 6.0.0 that works Ok, as well as a PC with 5.0. Our company has done a mass upgrade to Reader 6.0.1 and IE 6.0.2, so these PCs are not the norm. 2) No SSL is being used at this point (but it will eventually). 3) No compression (that I know of -- unless Tomcat is doing it for us). 4) Our JSP is supposed to be a generic file downloader, handling Word, Excel, PDF, etc. Hence the URL ends in .jsp vs. the real file extension. 5) Here's a typical response we're getting in IE: HTTP/1.0 200 OK Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 20:33:26 GMT Server: Apache Tomcat/4.0.6 (HTTP/1.1 Connector) Content-Type: application/pdf;charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Length: 156483 Content-disposition: attachement; filename=Germany.pdf expires: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT Connection: close Thanks, Aman Raheja Phillip Qin wrote: Where do you generate the pdf? In servlet? The link has to be end with .pdf (but before any query string) in order for acrobat reader active-x to kick in. -Original Message- From: Aman Raheja [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: November 16, 2004 9:27 AM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: Problem displaying PDF in IE6 from Tomcat using the ActiveX R eader Plug-in We did set the Security level to low on IE. More suggestions? Thanks Aman Raheja Phillip Qin wrote: There are security and privacy settings in IE affect PDF generation. BTW, ensurethe link before query string ends with .pdf -Original Message- From: Aman Raheja [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: November 15, 2004 1:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Problem displaying PDF in IE6 from Tomcat using the ActiveX Reader Plug-in Problem: When we try to display a dynamically generated PDF file, IE launches the Adobe Acrobat Reader Plugin, but then just a blank page is displayed and the IE status says Done. No error message is displayed. No error is generated in the System Event logs. The issue seems to be that every request to request to Tomcat for the PDF send back the request with charset=ISO-8859-1 in the Content-type Header. We want to figure out a way to verify that this is the issue. One way might be to somehow get Tomcat to not append the Character Set in the header. Is there a way to do this? Environment: - Client: Windows XP or Windows 2000 - Server: Tomcat 4.0.6/JDK 1.3.1 running on Solaris and Windows XP (problem exists on both) - Adobe Reader 6.0.1 (occurs with 6.0.2 patch as well) - IE 6.0.2800 Additional Information: 1) Our URLs are formed like this: http://app.ourserver.com/appname/docViewAGN.jsp?RepoType=CID=18698Doc Name= Germanyentry=DocType=pdfcategory=Research 2) Our app is issuing GETs, not POSTs. 3) This is happening on multiple PCs. One thing we noticed is this may be somewhat Reader version dependent -- we have a few machines left with Reader 5 installed, and they do not seem to have the problem. 4) When the problem occurs, if you then launch Reader manually, the document that didn't display in the IE window is automatically displayed in the full client Reader app.!!! 5) If we set Reader to not open up PDFs in browser windows, the Reader window launches and opens the PDF file just fine. [This is a client solution, and not practical to implement across hundreds of PCs unfortunately.] 6) We actually have one PC with Windows XP, Reader 6.0.1, and IE 6.0.2 that works. Could this problem be caused by some specific Windows or IE patch? 7) We've scoured the forums and tried several things including setting all security levels to Low in IE, adding a dummy parm at the end of the URL to fool IE into launching the PDF correctly (e.g. dummy=file.pdf), and various header settings to force caching on to 30 seconds, etc. None of this had any effect. 8) Also, we saw some references to problems caused by Tomcat 4.0.6 adding charset=ISO-8859-1 to the Content-Type header in the response. How can we
Re: Problem displaying PDF in IE6 from Tomcat using the ActiveX R eader Plug-in
Here's some more input from our team, regarding the problem We've confirmed its defintely the charset=ISO-8859-1 appended to the Content-Type header that is causing the problem in IE. [I'm not saying IE shouldn't work with this, but we don't have a choice but to support it.] We wrote a stand-alone servlet that works fine downloading a pdf if we leave off the charset. When we add the charset to the header, it breaks. It looks like when Tomcat is compiling our JSP code, its adding the charset into the response based on what we see in the intermediate Java code the Jasper compiler is producing. --- Does anyone know how to override this on Tomcat 4.0.6 specifically? FYI: We read that this was a known issue in another forum, and some version of Tomcat 4.1 might be changed to leave this off. However, we experimented with Tomcat 4.0.6/JDK 1.3.1, Tomcat 4.1.31/JDK 1.4.2, and Tomcat 5.5.4/JDK 1.5.0, and all these combinations add the charset to the response. Meantime we are checking on the mis-spelled attachment for Content-Disposition part of the header dump we sent earlier. David Wall wrote: Have you tried using links like the following: http://yourhost.com/webappcontext/download.jsp/Germany.pdf The idea is that tomcat will find the JSP download.jsp and execute it, and since the link ends with the file name, some browsers will better detect the pdf reader launch. If you need some params passed in, your link would look like: http://yourhost.com/webappcontext/download.jsp/Germany.pdf?abc=xyzxyz=abc I don't know if your headers have a typo in your email or in production, but you have an invalid Content-Disposition header (misspelled attachment as attachement) which would be a problem, too. David - Original Message - From: Aman Raheja [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tomcat Users List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2004 8:47 AM Subject: Re: Problem displaying PDF in IE6 from Tomcat using the ActiveX R eader Plug-in Some more info to respond to the earlier responses 1) We're seeing more evidence this is a problem with Reader 6.0.1 (or the 6.0.2 patch). We have a PC with Reader 6.0.0 that works Ok, as well as a PC with 5.0. Our company has done a mass upgrade to Reader 6.0.1 and IE 6.0.2, so these PCs are not the norm. 2) No SSL is being used at this point (but it will eventually). 3) No compression (that I know of -- unless Tomcat is doing it for us). 4) Our JSP is supposed to be a generic file downloader, handling Word, Excel, PDF, etc. Hence the URL ends in .jsp vs. the real file extension. 5) Here's a typical response we're getting in IE: HTTP/1.0 200 OK Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 20:33:26 GMT Server: Apache Tomcat/4.0.6 (HTTP/1.1 Connector) Content-Type: application/pdf;charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Length: 156483 Content-disposition: attachement; filename=Germany.pdf expires: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT Connection: close Thanks, Aman Raheja Phillip Qin wrote: Where do you generate the pdf? In servlet? The link has to be end with .pdf (but before any query string) in order for acrobat reader active-x to kick in. -Original Message- From: Aman Raheja [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: November 16, 2004 9:27 AM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: Problem displaying PDF in IE6 from Tomcat using the ActiveX R eader Plug-in We did set the Security level to low on IE. More suggestions? Thanks Aman Raheja Phillip Qin wrote: There are security and privacy settings in IE affect PDF generation. BTW, ensurethe link before query string ends with .pdf -Original Message- From: Aman Raheja [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: November 15, 2004 1:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Problem displaying PDF in IE6 from Tomcat using the ActiveX Reader Plug-in Problem: When we try to display a dynamically generated PDF file, IE launches the Adobe Acrobat Reader Plugin, but then just a blank page is displayed and the IE status says Done. No error message is displayed. No error is generated in the System Event logs. The issue seems to be that every request to request to Tomcat for the PDF send back the request with charset=ISO-8859-1 in the Content-type Header. We want to figure out a way to verify that this is the issue. One way might be to somehow get Tomcat to not append the Character Set in the header. Is there a way to do this? Environment: - Client: Windows XP or Windows 2000 - Server: Tomcat 4.0.6/JDK 1.3.1 running on Solaris and Windows XP (problem exists on both) - Adobe Reader 6.0.1 (occurs with 6.0.2 patch as well) - IE 6.0.2800 Additional Information: 1) Our URLs are formed like this: http://app.ourserver.com/appname/docViewAGN.jsp?RepoType=CID=18698Doc Name= Germanyentry=DocType=pdfcategory=Research 2) Our app is issuing GETs, not POSTs. 3) This is happening on multiple PCs. One thing we noticed is this may be somewhat Reader version dependent -- we have a few machines left with Reader 5 installed, and they do
RE: Problem displaying PDF in IE6 from Tomcat using the ActiveX R eader Plug-in
If you can visit our site at https://www.investments.shareowner.com/lciponline and view the sample pdf statement, then there is something definitely wrong with your own code - do not pointing to Tomcat. -Original Message- From: Aman Raheja [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: November 18, 2004 12:50 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: Problem displaying PDF in IE6 from Tomcat using the ActiveX R eader Plug-in Here's some more input from our team, regarding the problem We've confirmed its defintely the charset=ISO-8859-1 appended to the Content-Type header that is causing the problem in IE. [I'm not saying IE shouldn't work with this, but we don't have a choice but to support it.] We wrote a stand-alone servlet that works fine downloading a pdf if we leave off the charset. When we add the charset to the header, it breaks. It looks like when Tomcat is compiling our JSP code, its adding the charset into the response based on what we see in the intermediate Java code the Jasper compiler is producing. --- Does anyone know how to override this on Tomcat 4.0.6 specifically? FYI: We read that this was a known issue in another forum, and some version of Tomcat 4.1 might be changed to leave this off. However, we experimented with Tomcat 4.0.6/JDK 1.3.1, Tomcat 4.1.31/JDK 1.4.2, and Tomcat 5.5.4/JDK 1.5.0, and all these combinations add the charset to the response. Meantime we are checking on the mis-spelled attachment for Content-Disposition part of the header dump we sent earlier. David Wall wrote: Have you tried using links like the following: http://yourhost.com/webappcontext/download.jsp/Germany.pdf The idea is that tomcat will find the JSP download.jsp and execute it, and since the link ends with the file name, some browsers will better detect the pdf reader launch. If you need some params passed in, your link would look like: http://yourhost.com/webappcontext/download.jsp/Germany.pdf?abc=xyzxyz= abc I don't know if your headers have a typo in your email or in production, but you have an invalid Content-Disposition header (misspelled attachment as attachement) which would be a problem, too. David - Original Message - From: Aman Raheja [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Tomcat Users List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2004 8:47 AM Subject: Re: Problem displaying PDF in IE6 from Tomcat using the ActiveX R eader Plug-in Some more info to respond to the earlier responses 1) We're seeing more evidence this is a problem with Reader 6.0.1 (or the 6.0.2 patch). We have a PC with Reader 6.0.0 that works Ok, as well as a PC with 5.0. Our company has done a mass upgrade to Reader 6.0.1 and IE 6.0.2, so these PCs are not the norm. 2) No SSL is being used at this point (but it will eventually). 3) No compression (that I know of -- unless Tomcat is doing it for us). 4) Our JSP is supposed to be a generic file downloader, handling Word, Excel, PDF, etc. Hence the URL ends in .jsp vs. the real file extension. 5) Here's a typical response we're getting in IE: HTTP/1.0 200 OK Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 20:33:26 GMT Server: Apache Tomcat/4.0.6 (HTTP/1.1 Connector) Content-Type: application/pdf;charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Length: 156483 Content-disposition: attachement; filename=Germany.pdf expires: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT Connection: close Thanks, Aman Raheja Phillip Qin wrote: Where do you generate the pdf? In servlet? The link has to be end with .pdf (but before any query string) in order for acrobat reader active-x to kick in. -Original Message- From: Aman Raheja [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: November 16, 2004 9:27 AM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: Problem displaying PDF in IE6 from Tomcat using the ActiveX R eader Plug-in We did set the Security level to low on IE. More suggestions? Thanks Aman Raheja Phillip Qin wrote: There are security and privacy settings in IE affect PDF generation. BTW, ensurethe link before query string ends with .pdf -Original Message- From: Aman Raheja [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: November 15, 2004 1:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Problem displaying PDF in IE6 from Tomcat using the ActiveX Reader Plug-in Problem: When we try to display a dynamically generated PDF file, IE launches the Adobe Acrobat Reader Plugin, but then just a blank page is displayed and the IE status says Done. No error message is displayed. No error is generated in the System Event logs. The issue seems to be that every request to request to Tomcat for the PDF send back the request with charset=ISO-8859-1 in the Content-type Header. We want to figure out a way to verify that this is the issue. One way might be to somehow get Tomcat to not append the Character Set in the header. Is there a way to do this? Environment: - Client: Windows XP or Windows 2000 - Server: Tomcat 4.0.6/JDK 1.3.1 running on Solaris and Windows XP
Re: Problem displaying PDF in IE6 from Tomcat using the ActiveX R eader Plug-in
We did set the Security level to low on IE. More suggestions? Thanks Aman Raheja Phillip Qin wrote: There are security and privacy settings in IE affect PDF generation. BTW, ensurethe link before query string ends with .pdf -Original Message- From: Aman Raheja [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: November 15, 2004 1:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Problem displaying PDF in IE6 from Tomcat using the ActiveX Reader Plug-in Problem: When we try to display a dynamically generated PDF file, IE launches the Adobe Acrobat Reader Plugin, but then just a blank page is displayed and the IE status says Done. No error message is displayed. No error is generated in the System Event logs. The issue seems to be that every request to request to Tomcat for the PDF send back the request with charset=ISO-8859-1 in the Content-type Header. We want to figure out a way to verify that this is the issue. One way might be to somehow get Tomcat to not append the Character Set in the header. Is there a way to do this? Environment: - Client: Windows XP or Windows 2000 - Server: Tomcat 4.0.6/JDK 1.3.1 running on Solaris and Windows XP (problem exists on both) - Adobe Reader 6.0.1 (occurs with 6.0.2 patch as well) - IE 6.0.2800 Additional Information: 1) Our URLs are formed like this: http://app.ourserver.com/appname/docViewAGN.jsp?RepoType=CID=18698DocName= Germanyentry=DocType=pdfcategory=Research 2) Our app is issuing GETs, not POSTs. 3) This is happening on multiple PCs. One thing we noticed is this may be somewhat Reader version dependent -- we have a few machines left with Reader 5 installed, and they do not seem to have the problem. 4) When the problem occurs, if you then launch Reader manually, the document that didn't display in the IE window is automatically displayed in the full client Reader app.!!! 5) If we set Reader to not open up PDFs in browser windows, the Reader window launches and opens the PDF file just fine. [This is a client solution, and not practical to implement across hundreds of PCs unfortunately.] 6) We actually have one PC with Windows XP, Reader 6.0.1, and IE 6.0.2 that works. Could this problem be caused by some specific Windows or IE patch? 7) We've scoured the forums and tried several things including setting all security levels to Low in IE, adding a dummy parm at the end of the URL to fool IE into launching the PDF correctly (e.g. dummy=file.pdf), and various header settings to force caching on to 30 seconds, etc. None of this had any effect. 8) Also, we saw some references to problems caused by Tomcat 4.0.6 adding charset=ISO-8859-1 to the Content-Type header in the response. How can we override this to see if that's the problem? Thanks Aman Raheja - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] !DSPAM:4198f83938781679484274! - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem displaying PDF in IE6 from Tomcat using the ActiveX R eader Plug-in
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RE: Problem displaying PDF in IE6 from Tomcat using the ActiveX R eader Plug-in
Are you setting the MIME type in the response header properly for the PDF? Also note that the Acrobat Reader plugin doesn't like to read PDFs if they've been served using HTTP compression (I don't know if that applies in your case or not). Also, if the PDF is being sent over SSL, note that IE has a setting that prevents the caching of SSL-delivered content to disk, which will choke the Acrobat Reader plugin. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/16/2004 6:33:20 AM Where do you generate the pdf? In servlet? The link has to be end with .pdf (but before any query string) in order for acrobat reader active-x to kick in. -Original Message- From: Aman Raheja [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: November 16, 2004 9:27 AM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: Problem displaying PDF in IE6 from Tomcat using the ActiveX R eader Plug-in We did set the Security level to low on IE. More suggestions? Thanks Aman Raheja Phillip Qin wrote: There are security and privacy settings in IE affect PDF generation. BTW, ensurethe link before query string ends with .pdf -Original Message- From: Aman Raheja [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: November 15, 2004 1:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Problem displaying PDF in IE6 from Tomcat using the ActiveX Reader Plug-in Problem: When we try to display a dynamically generated PDF file, IE launches the Adobe Acrobat Reader Plugin, but then just a blank page is displayed and the IE status says Done. No error message is displayed. No error is generated in the System Event logs. The issue seems to be that every request to request to Tomcat for the PDF send back the request with charset=ISO-8859-1 in the Content-type Header. We want to figure out a way to verify that this is the issue. One way might be to somehow get Tomcat to not append the Character Set in the header. Is there a way to do this? Environment: - Client: Windows XP or Windows 2000 - Server: Tomcat 4.0.6/JDK 1.3.1 running on Solaris and Windows XP (problem exists on both) - Adobe Reader 6.0.1 (occurs with 6.0.2 patch as well) - IE 6.0.2800 Additional Information: 1) Our URLs are formed like this: http://app.ourserver.com/appname/docViewAGN.jsp?RepoType=CID=18698Doc Name= Germanyentry=DocType=pdfcategory=Research 2) Our app is issuing GETs, not POSTs. 3) This is happening on multiple PCs. One thing we noticed is this may be somewhat Reader version dependent -- we have a few machines left with Reader 5 installed, and they do not seem to have the problem. 4) When the problem occurs, if you then launch Reader manually, the document that didn't display in the IE window is automatically displayed in the full client Reader app.!!! 5) If we set Reader to not open up PDFs in browser windows, the Reader window launches and opens the PDF file just fine. [This is a client solution, and not practical to implement across hundreds of PCs unfortunately.] 6) We actually have one PC with Windows XP, Reader 6.0.1, and IE 6.0.2 that works. Could this problem be caused by some specific Windows or IE patch? 7) We've scoured the forums and tried several things including setting all security levels to Low in IE, adding a dummy parm at the end of the URL to fool IE into launching the PDF correctly (e.g. dummy=file.pdf), and various header settings to force caching on to 30 seconds, etc. None of this had any effect. 8) Also, we saw some references to problems caused by Tomcat 4.0.6 adding charset=ISO-8859-1 to the Content-Type header in the response. How can we override this to see if that's the problem? Thanks Aman Raheja - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] !DSPAM:419a0e4b161771045017228!
RE: Problem displaying PDF in IE6 from Tomcat using the ActiveX R eader Plug-in
Where do you generate the pdf? In servlet? The link has to be end with .pdf (but before any query string) in order for acrobat reader active-x to kick in. -Original Message- From: Aman Raheja [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: November 16, 2004 9:27 AM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: Problem displaying PDF in IE6 from Tomcat using the ActiveX R eader Plug-in We did set the Security level to low on IE. More suggestions? Thanks Aman Raheja Phillip Qin wrote: There are security and privacy settings in IE affect PDF generation. BTW, ensurethe link before query string ends with .pdf -Original Message- From: Aman Raheja [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: November 15, 2004 1:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Problem displaying PDF in IE6 from Tomcat using the ActiveX Reader Plug-in Problem: When we try to display a dynamically generated PDF file, IE launches the Adobe Acrobat Reader Plugin, but then just a blank page is displayed and the IE status says Done. No error message is displayed. No error is generated in the System Event logs. The issue seems to be that every request to request to Tomcat for the PDF send back the request with charset=ISO-8859-1 in the Content-type Header. We want to figure out a way to verify that this is the issue. One way might be to somehow get Tomcat to not append the Character Set in the header. Is there a way to do this? Environment: - Client: Windows XP or Windows 2000 - Server: Tomcat 4.0.6/JDK 1.3.1 running on Solaris and Windows XP (problem exists on both) - Adobe Reader 6.0.1 (occurs with 6.0.2 patch as well) - IE 6.0.2800 Additional Information: 1) Our URLs are formed like this: http://app.ourserver.com/appname/docViewAGN.jsp?RepoType=CID=18698Doc Name= Germanyentry=DocType=pdfcategory=Research 2) Our app is issuing GETs, not POSTs. 3) This is happening on multiple PCs. One thing we noticed is this may be somewhat Reader version dependent -- we have a few machines left with Reader 5 installed, and they do not seem to have the problem. 4) When the problem occurs, if you then launch Reader manually, the document that didn't display in the IE window is automatically displayed in the full client Reader app.!!! 5) If we set Reader to not open up PDFs in browser windows, the Reader window launches and opens the PDF file just fine. [This is a client solution, and not practical to implement across hundreds of PCs unfortunately.] 6) We actually have one PC with Windows XP, Reader 6.0.1, and IE 6.0.2 that works. Could this problem be caused by some specific Windows or IE patch? 7) We've scoured the forums and tried several things including setting all security levels to Low in IE, adding a dummy parm at the end of the URL to fool IE into launching the PDF correctly (e.g. dummy=file.pdf), and various header settings to force caching on to 30 seconds, etc. None of this had any effect. 8) Also, we saw some references to problems caused by Tomcat 4.0.6 adding charset=ISO-8859-1 to the Content-Type header in the response. How can we override this to see if that's the problem? Thanks Aman Raheja - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] !DSPAM:419a0e4b161771045017228!
RE: Problem displaying PDF in IE6 from Tomcat using the ActiveX R eader Plug-in
I've developed a couple of applications that spit back PDF files from within Struts. One thing I did have to do was make sure the generated PDF's response content type was application/pdf I don't think I've had to do anything with filename extensions. -Original Message- From: Phillip Qin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 9:33 AM To: 'Tomcat Users List' Subject: RE: Problem displaying PDF in IE6 from Tomcat using the ActiveX R eader Plug-in Where do you generate the pdf? In servlet? The link has to be end with .pdf (but before any query string) in order for acrobat reader active-x to kick in. -Original Message- From: Aman Raheja [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: November 16, 2004 9:27 AM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: Problem displaying PDF in IE6 from Tomcat using the ActiveX R eader Plug-in We did set the Security level to low on IE. More suggestions? Thanks Aman Raheja Phillip Qin wrote: There are security and privacy settings in IE affect PDF generation. BTW, ensurethe link before query string ends with .pdf -Original Message- From: Aman Raheja [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: November 15, 2004 1:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Problem displaying PDF in IE6 from Tomcat using the ActiveX Reader Plug-in Problem: When we try to display a dynamically generated PDF file, IE launches the Adobe Acrobat Reader Plugin, but then just a blank page is displayed and the IE status says Done. No error message is displayed. No error is generated in the System Event logs. The issue seems to be that every request to request to Tomcat for the PDF send back the request with charset=ISO-8859-1 in the Content-type Header. We want to figure out a way to verify that this is the issue. One way might be to somehow get Tomcat to not append the Character Set in the header. Is there a way to do this? Environment: - Client: Windows XP or Windows 2000 - Server: Tomcat 4.0.6/JDK 1.3.1 running on Solaris and Windows XP (problem exists on both) - Adobe Reader 6.0.1 (occurs with 6.0.2 patch as well) - IE 6.0.2800 Additional Information: 1) Our URLs are formed like this: http://app.ourserver.com/appname/docViewAGN.jsp?RepoType=CID=18698Doc Name= Germanyentry=DocType=pdfcategory=Research 2) Our app is issuing GETs, not POSTs. 3) This is happening on multiple PCs. One thing we noticed is this may be somewhat Reader version dependent -- we have a few machines left with Reader 5 installed, and they do not seem to have the problem. 4) When the problem occurs, if you then launch Reader manually, the document that didn't display in the IE window is automatically displayed in the full client Reader app.!!! 5) If we set Reader to not open up PDFs in browser windows, the Reader window launches and opens the PDF file just fine. [This is a client solution, and not practical to implement across hundreds of PCs unfortunately.] 6) We actually have one PC with Windows XP, Reader 6.0.1, and IE 6.0.2 that works. Could this problem be caused by some specific Windows or IE patch? 7) We've scoured the forums and tried several things including setting all security levels to Low in IE, adding a dummy parm at the end of the URL to fool IE into launching the PDF correctly (e.g. dummy=file.pdf), and various header settings to force caching on to 30 seconds, etc. None of this had any effect. 8) Also, we saw some references to problems caused by Tomcat 4.0.6 adding charset=ISO-8859-1 to the Content-Type header in the response. How can we override this to see if that's the problem? Thanks Aman Raheja - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] !DSPAM:419a0e4b161771045017228!
RE: Problem displaying PDF in IE6 from Tomcat using the ActiveX R eader Plug-in
Mozilla does not have the extension issue. IE does. I use struts too. -Original Message- From: Graff, David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: November 16, 2004 9:42 AM To: 'Tomcat Users List' Subject: RE: Problem displaying PDF in IE6 from Tomcat using the ActiveX R eader Plug-in I've developed a couple of applications that spit back PDF files from within Struts. One thing I did have to do was make sure the generated PDF's response content type was application/pdf I don't think I've had to do anything with filename extensions. -Original Message- From: Phillip Qin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 9:33 AM To: 'Tomcat Users List' Subject: RE: Problem displaying PDF in IE6 from Tomcat using the ActiveX R eader Plug-in Where do you generate the pdf? In servlet? The link has to be end with .pdf (but before any query string) in order for acrobat reader active-x to kick in. -Original Message- From: Aman Raheja [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: November 16, 2004 9:27 AM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: Problem displaying PDF in IE6 from Tomcat using the ActiveX R eader Plug-in We did set the Security level to low on IE. More suggestions? Thanks Aman Raheja Phillip Qin wrote: There are security and privacy settings in IE affect PDF generation. BTW, ensurethe link before query string ends with .pdf -Original Message- From: Aman Raheja [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: November 15, 2004 1:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Problem displaying PDF in IE6 from Tomcat using the ActiveX Reader Plug-in Problem: When we try to display a dynamically generated PDF file, IE launches the Adobe Acrobat Reader Plugin, but then just a blank page is displayed and the IE status says Done. No error message is displayed. No error is generated in the System Event logs. The issue seems to be that every request to request to Tomcat for the PDF send back the request with charset=ISO-8859-1 in the Content-type Header. We want to figure out a way to verify that this is the issue. One way might be to somehow get Tomcat to not append the Character Set in the header. Is there a way to do this? Environment: - Client: Windows XP or Windows 2000 - Server: Tomcat 4.0.6/JDK 1.3.1 running on Solaris and Windows XP (problem exists on both) - Adobe Reader 6.0.1 (occurs with 6.0.2 patch as well) - IE 6.0.2800 Additional Information: 1) Our URLs are formed like this: http://app.ourserver.com/appname/docViewAGN.jsp?RepoType=CID=18698Doc Name= Germanyentry=DocType=pdfcategory=Research 2) Our app is issuing GETs, not POSTs. 3) This is happening on multiple PCs. One thing we noticed is this may be somewhat Reader version dependent -- we have a few machines left with Reader 5 installed, and they do not seem to have the problem. 4) When the problem occurs, if you then launch Reader manually, the document that didn't display in the IE window is automatically displayed in the full client Reader app.!!! 5) If we set Reader to not open up PDFs in browser windows, the Reader window launches and opens the PDF file just fine. [This is a client solution, and not practical to implement across hundreds of PCs unfortunately.] 6) We actually have one PC with Windows XP, Reader 6.0.1, and IE 6.0.2 that works. Could this problem be caused by some specific Windows or IE patch? 7) We've scoured the forums and tried several things including setting all security levels to Low in IE, adding a dummy parm at the end of the URL to fool IE into launching the PDF correctly (e.g. dummy=file.pdf), and various header settings to force caching on to 30 seconds, etc. None of this had any effect. 8) Also, we saw some references to problems caused by Tomcat 4.0.6 adding charset=ISO-8859-1 to the Content-Type header in the response. How can we override this to see if that's the problem? Thanks Aman Raheja - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] !DSPAM:419a11f7162861134571087!
Re: Problem displaying PDF in IE6 from Tomcat using the ActiveX R eader Plug-in
The pdf is at a relative path from the JSP that spawns the active-x. The link would end with .pdf, but tomcat appends charset=ISO-8859-1 to the content header. Thanks Aman Raheja Phillip Qin wrote: Where do you generate the pdf? In servlet? The link has to be end with .pdf (but before any query string) in order for acrobat reader active-x to kick in. -Original Message- From: Aman Raheja [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: November 16, 2004 9:27 AM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: Problem displaying PDF in IE6 from Tomcat using the ActiveX R eader Plug-in We did set the Security level to low on IE. More suggestions? Thanks Aman Raheja Phillip Qin wrote: There are security and privacy settings in IE affect PDF generation. BTW, ensurethe link before query string ends with .pdf -Original Message- From: Aman Raheja [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: November 15, 2004 1:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Problem displaying PDF in IE6 from Tomcat using the ActiveX Reader Plug-in Problem: When we try to display a dynamically generated PDF file, IE launches the Adobe Acrobat Reader Plugin, but then just a blank page is displayed and the IE status says Done. No error message is displayed. No error is generated in the System Event logs. The issue seems to be that every request to request to Tomcat for the PDF send back the request with charset=ISO-8859-1 in the Content-type Header. We want to figure out a way to verify that this is the issue. One way might be to somehow get Tomcat to not append the Character Set in the header. Is there a way to do this? Environment: - Client: Windows XP or Windows 2000 - Server: Tomcat 4.0.6/JDK 1.3.1 running on Solaris and Windows XP (problem exists on both) - Adobe Reader 6.0.1 (occurs with 6.0.2 patch as well) - IE 6.0.2800 Additional Information: 1) Our URLs are formed like this: http://app.ourserver.com/appname/docViewAGN.jsp?RepoType=CID=18698Doc Name= Germanyentry=DocType=pdfcategory=Research 2) Our app is issuing GETs, not POSTs. 3) This is happening on multiple PCs. One thing we noticed is this may be somewhat Reader version dependent -- we have a few machines left with Reader 5 installed, and they do not seem to have the problem. 4) When the problem occurs, if you then launch Reader manually, the document that didn't display in the IE window is automatically displayed in the full client Reader app.!!! 5) If we set Reader to not open up PDFs in browser windows, the Reader window launches and opens the PDF file just fine. [This is a client solution, and not practical to implement across hundreds of PCs unfortunately.] 6) We actually have one PC with Windows XP, Reader 6.0.1, and IE 6.0.2 that works. Could this problem be caused by some specific Windows or IE patch? 7) We've scoured the forums and tried several things including setting all security levels to Low in IE, adding a dummy parm at the end of the URL to fool IE into launching the PDF correctly (e.g. dummy=file.pdf), and various header settings to force caching on to 30 seconds, etc. None of this had any effect. 8) Also, we saw some references to problems caused by Tomcat 4.0.6 adding charset=ISO-8859-1 to the Content-Type header in the response. How can we override this to see if that's the problem? Thanks Aman Raheja - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] !DSPAM:419a0e4b161771045017228! - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Problem displaying PDF in IE6 from Tomcat using the ActiveX R eader Plug-in
There are security and privacy settings in IE affect PDF generation. BTW, ensurethe link before query string ends with .pdf -Original Message- From: Aman Raheja [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: November 15, 2004 1:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Problem displaying PDF in IE6 from Tomcat using the ActiveX Reader Plug-in Problem: When we try to display a dynamically generated PDF file, IE launches the Adobe Acrobat Reader Plugin, but then just a blank page is displayed and the IE status says Done. No error message is displayed. No error is generated in the System Event logs. The issue seems to be that every request to request to Tomcat for the PDF send back the request with charset=ISO-8859-1 in the Content-type Header. We want to figure out a way to verify that this is the issue. One way might be to somehow get Tomcat to not append the Character Set in the header. Is there a way to do this? Environment: - Client: Windows XP or Windows 2000 - Server: Tomcat 4.0.6/JDK 1.3.1 running on Solaris and Windows XP (problem exists on both) - Adobe Reader 6.0.1 (occurs with 6.0.2 patch as well) - IE 6.0.2800 Additional Information: 1) Our URLs are formed like this: http://app.ourserver.com/appname/docViewAGN.jsp?RepoType=CID=18698DocName= Germanyentry=DocType=pdfcategory=Research 2) Our app is issuing GETs, not POSTs. 3) This is happening on multiple PCs. One thing we noticed is this may be somewhat Reader version dependent -- we have a few machines left with Reader 5 installed, and they do not seem to have the problem. 4) When the problem occurs, if you then launch Reader manually, the document that didn't display in the IE window is automatically displayed in the full client Reader app.!!! 5) If we set Reader to not open up PDFs in browser windows, the Reader window launches and opens the PDF file just fine. [This is a client solution, and not practical to implement across hundreds of PCs unfortunately.] 6) We actually have one PC with Windows XP, Reader 6.0.1, and IE 6.0.2 that works. Could this problem be caused by some specific Windows or IE patch? 7) We've scoured the forums and tried several things including setting all security levels to Low in IE, adding a dummy parm at the end of the URL to fool IE into launching the PDF correctly (e.g. dummy=file.pdf), and various header settings to force caching on to 30 seconds, etc. None of this had any effect. 8) Also, we saw some references to problems caused by Tomcat 4.0.6 adding charset=ISO-8859-1 to the Content-Type header in the response. How can we override this to see if that's the problem? Thanks Aman Raheja - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] !DSPAM:4198f83938781679484274!
