I've been working on this a little.  You can add a header:

Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=mypdf.pdf

Seems to work on ie 5.5, haven't tested other browsers.

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Woon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 11:22 AM
To: Struts Users Mailing List
Subject: Re: Problem With Forwarding to a non-HTML file



Sorry, I guess I should also have added that PDF files are ocassionally
generated on the fly., in which case there's really nothing to redirect or
forward to.  Is there anything I can do in these situations?


Max Cooper wrote:

> Sending a redirect to the PDF file might work better for your situation.
>
> -Max
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Woon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 11:28 PM
> Subject: Problem With Forwarding to a non-HTML file
>
> > Hi all.
> >
> > I'm using an Action to figure out which document I need to serve, and
> > the document could be a pdf file.  The problem is that when I forward to
> > a PDF file, the browser still thinks that it's on the action (get.do),
> > and tries to save the file as get.do.  I've set the content-type so
> > it'll spawn the right app, but is there a way to specify the name with
> > which the file gets saved under?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > -Mark
>
> --
> To unsubscribe, e-mail:
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> For additional commands, e-mail:
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

--
~~Mark Woon~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.



--
To unsubscribe, e-mail:   <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Reply via email to