Not sure what your problem is. I've done stuff like this and almost
exclusively use IE5. Without a code sample it's hard to say anything. What
works for me is this:
servletResponse.setContentType( "application/pdf" )
servletResponse.sendRedirect( "http://www.foo.com/foo.pdf" );
The API docs clearly specify that the URL HAS to be absolute, so make sure
you're doing this correctly. If you're pointing to a relative location and
it's been working, you were lucky.
If this doesn't help you try sending a snippet of your code.
Good luck
Rob
> -----Original Message-----
> The company I work for is using a servlet to log requests for
> documents on our
> site. The way this works is that the link for the document
> actually goes
> through a servlet I wrote, which logs the request and issues
> a redirect to the
> "real" url. This has been working fine, but recently we
> discovered a serious
> bug involving Internet Explorer and redirects to .pdf files.
> If you click on
> the url which goes through the servlet, the browser hangs for
> a bit, and then
> finally returns "unable to find object to handle request".
>
> Note: This works FINE with all other browsers we've tested.
>
> To test this, I wrote a very simple servlet which only issues
> a redirect to a
> pdf file we host, and it fails too. We suspect this is
> something related to
> mime-types, and hence I tried setting the mime-type to
> "application/pdf" before
> issuing the redirect in the servlet above, but it had no
> effect and ellicited
> the same behaviour. Is the <gasp> an IE bug? Does anyone
> know of a workaround?
>
> Platform:
> ApacheJServ 1.1.1, ibm jdk 1.18 for Linux, JSDK2.0
>
> Can anyone shed some light on this?
>
> Thanks much,
>
> -Tim
>
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