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?
>
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> Damian Van Dooren
> Information Technology
> The Investment Centre
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