One fix I have found is to construct your url in a way the it end with
".pdf" for example http://www.apes.com/test.jsp?target=test.jsp
This is of course clunky and awfully ugly, but it works.
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mike Hoolehan
Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 1:00 PM
To: Orion-Interest
Subject: Re: Sending a PDF via a servlet to IE 5
Damian,
my company ran into the same problem constructing pdf files through a
perl script. The problem is with IE5, specifically the manner in which it
attempts to detect the content type of server output. The content-type mime
header is unfortunately one of the last things it peeks at. Check out
article ref Q262213 on Microsoft's knowledge base. We've collected a list
of related (and perhaps more pertinent.. I'm away from my office right now)
articles. Email me directly if you want more detail.
Oh, there's no fix we ever found, by the way. We could never pinpoint
any exact version of IE or Windows that caused the problem. Sometime an IE
upgrade worked, sometimes not. We were left with "Click here for an html
version," "Click here to have a pdf copy emailed to you", "Please use
Netscape", etc.
If you find a fix, let me know!
Mike Hoolehan
Sycamore Associates, Inc.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
301.668.4681x103
On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 02:51:20PM -0500, Van Dooren, Damian 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?
>
> -----
> Damian Van Dooren
> Information Technology
> The Investment Centre
> (519) 672-4389 x718
>
