If you are using a servlet to get the PDF from the database, try
a quick and dirty solution by calling your servlet with some additional
pathinfo.
Ex:
URL to your servlet: /servlet/PdfServlet
Try using this instead: /servlet/PdfServlet/apdffile.pdf
This might trick IE5 as it can get the content type from the file name it
thinks
it's calling as well as from the setContentType("application/pdf").
</christofer>
----- Original Message -----
From: "Van Dooren, Damian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Orion-Interest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 4:51 PM
Subject: RE: Sending a PDF via a servlet to IE 5
> Okay I think I've got a work around for it, thanks for everyones
> suggestions.
>
> I set the ContentLength
>
> I need to determine if the browser is IE5,
> then set the Content-disposition header to
> "attachment;filename=\"somefilename.pdf\""
> else set the Content-disposition header to
> "inline;filename=\"somefilename.pdf\""
>
> Now I just need to test this with other browsers.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Thomas Munro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 8:51 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Cc: Orion-Interest
> > Subject: Re: Sending a PDF via a servlet to IE 5
> >
> >
> > 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]
> >
> > --
> > Thomas Munro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > http://www.fullsix.com/
> > Fullsix Technology (Paris)
> >
>
>
