Hi,
Are you using Internet Explorer to view the page? In our experience, the
newer versions (I'm not sure if it's all the 5.x series or only 5.5) no
longer are willing to honor the complete MIME protocol -- although
amazingly enough, they do recognize MS Word and Excel files.
Try using Netscape and see if that helps.
If this is the source of your problem, there is no workaround to the best
of my knowledge.
-- Eric Johnson
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Perfectionism is the enemy of creation...
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On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, Michael Wentzel wrote:
> I have written a Servlet that generates a pdf on the fly
> and outputs the result to the browser but all that ends
> up happening is the raw text get displayed instead of
> starting the adobe helper app and loading the generated
> doc.
>
> I have added the following to web.xml for my webapp:
> <mime-mapping> <!-- PDF mime -->
> <extension>
> pdf
> </extension>
> <mime-type>
> application/pdf
> </mime-type>
> </mime-mapping>
>
> I also set the Response content type to application/pdf
> before anything gets written to the OutputStream.
>
> Any ideas on what I might be doing wrong? Thanks.
>
>
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