You have to use Content-Disposition header. Try something like: Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="fname.pdf"
Regards, Rossen Raykov > -----Original Message----- > From: Philippe de M. Sevestre [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 4:49 PM > To: Tomcat Users List > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Problem with Tomcat and JServ > > > Hi, > > I had a similar problem some time ago with IE. No matter what > the headers > said, it would refuse to automatically open the Acrobat > reader _unless_ > the URL was also fished by ".pdf". In my case, the PDF was generated > by a FOP-based servlet and I made it invoked using a URL like that: > > http://somesite.com/someapp/createPdf?dummyArg=dummy.pdf > > If you need other parameters, just make sure the 'dummyArg' is the > last one. > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ing. Atilio Ranzuglia Buteler" <> > To: "Tomcat Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: quinta-feira, 26 de setembro de 2002 10:12 > Subject: Problem with Tomcat and JServ > > > > hi, everybody > > > > i'm having a very strange problem. i've developed a servlet > > that returns a pdf document. > > > > it works perfectly with tomcat and any browser that (can) > > supports pdf documents. > > > > the problem is when i deploy it to an apache/jserv server, > > there only works if the browser is > > different from ie. but the document is correct. i try with > > http explorer to see > > what is really coming back and the document is fine. > > > > the version of sdk is the same in tomcat and jserv (both > > 1.4.0), also with fop and the others libraries. > > > > the only difference is on the headers, here they are: > > > > HTTP/1.1 200 OK XXXXX > > Date: ... > > Server: Apache/1.3.12 (Win32) ApacheJServ/1.1 mod_ssl/2.6.4 > > ... > > Cache-Control: no-cache > > Expires: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT > > Pragma: no-cache > > Content-Length: 25179 XXXXX > > Connection: close > > Content-Type: application/pdf > > > > HTTP/1.0 200 OK XXXXX > > Date: ... > > Servlet-Engine: Tomcat Web Server/3.1 (JSP 1.1; Servlet > > 2.2; Java 1.4.0_01;...) > > Cache-Control: no-cache > > Content-Length: 25176 XXXXX > > Date: Mon, 23 Sep 02002 14:48:22 GMT > > Pragma: no-cache > > Status: 200 XXXXX > > Expires: Thu, 01 Jan 01970 00:00:00 GMT > > Content-Language: en XXXXX > > Content-Type: application/pdf > > > > the differences are the ones with XXXXX. i think that maybe > > the status line can be the problem. > > > > if someone of you can help me, i would appreciate too much > > > > thanks, atilio > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! > > http://sbc.yahoo.com > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
