Thanks for everyones help, I finally found the solution. I figured I send
it back to the list in case anyone else encounters this same problem in the
future. I had to set the content length before writing the bytes. So I
just had to add:
response.setContentLength(pdf.length);
to the servlet
Title: RE: streaming pdfs through servlet...
you may want to do something for your exception - at least write to stdout to indicate you got an error. If you get an exception thrown, you have not written anything to the response, therefore you will get a blank screen.
Charlie
Hi,
Seems you send it in one big piece, leaving buffering entirely to the
container. Try writing 2048 (or whatever) bytes, flushing, writing next
2048-bytes piece, flushing, etc until the end of file, should help, at least
that's how I do it in similar situations and encountered no problems so far
I had a similar problem in a php project in the past. There are
browser/acrobat-plugin combinations that cause strange behaviour when
passing through a pdf stream.
Try using some other browser/acrobat combinations to track your problem
down. If another combination works, you know that your jsp co
