Have you tried setting the Content-disposition header?
"Van Dooren, Damian" wrote:
>
> Unfortunately setting the content length didn't have any effect on the
> problem. Thanks anyways for the suggestion.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Meuer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 4:03 PM
> To: Orion-Interest
> Subject: Re: Sending a PDF via a servlet to IE 5
>
> At 02:51 PM 2/19/01 -0500, you wrote:
>
> Has anyone encountered an issue with sending a PDF back to IE 5?
>
> Here's my situation. I generate a PDF dynamically then store it in a
> database. I then retrieve the PDF from the DB via a servlet that sets the
> mime-type then outputs to the response stream. This works fine with Netscape
> and IE 5.5 but with IE 5 it displays an (mostly) empty page with a cube
> icon on it (looks like an ActiveX icon). When you click on the icon it pops
> up a dialog saying "Error Locating Object Handler". If I request a static
> PDF IE 5 display that fine. So I'm assuming I'm not setting something on the
> response properly. Any one hae any ideas?
>
> I don't know if this is exactly your problem, be we have encountered errors
> in IE's handling of PDF files if the content length in not correctly set in
> the header.
>
> Try something like this:
>
> // The technique of writing to a byte array output stream
> and then setting the content length was
> // taken from Paulo Soares (see the FAQ for the iText
> library). If the content length is not set then the PDF
> // plugin for IE has problems with the file, especially if
> it is small.
>
> // CREATE AND SEND THE DOCUMENT.
> response.setContentType( "application/pdf" );
> ByteArrayOutputStream ba = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
> createPdfDocument( ba ); // Stream the PDF file to ba
> response.setContentLength( ba.size() );
> ServletOutputStream out = response.getOutputStream();
> ba.writeTo( out );
> out.flush();
>
> Good luck!
>
> -mark
>
> Mark Meuer
> Software Engineer
> Life Navigator, Inc.
> (612) 333-8018
> http://www.lifenavigator.com
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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