Subject: Re: Strange PDF download behavior
From: "John Bauer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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I don't believe so, it is happening to all browsers in my area, and I doubt
they all have a download manager.  How can this be checked?

Also, some more info:
- we have set the content type to "application/pdf"
- we are returning null from the action class


"rob" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> This browser doesn't have one of those lame download manager plugins
> installed into it by any chance?
>
> I experienced a problem similar to this on a machine that had a real audio
> download manager a few days ago.
>
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> Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 2:55 AM
> Subject: Strange PDF download behavior
>
>
> > Subject: Strange PDF download behavior
> > From: "John Bauer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >  ===
> > We are having a difficult time getting a PDF download to work with
Struts.
> > This works fine with a servlet we have in production today, but when
using
> > Struts, it fails every time.
> >
> > We are submitting a form that contains a date and a type, and then going
> to
> > a back-end vendor to retrieve the PDF stream and re-stream it back to
the
> > user.  The URL that should work is as follows:
> >
> > http://xxxx/action/viewStmt?period=mm/dd/yy&type=PDF
> >
> > When we execute this URL, the action is invoked, the correct arguments
are
> > obtained, the vendor is called, and the streaming is done.  However, the
> > browser then pops up a message saying...
> >
> > "You have chosen to download a file from this location:
> >
> > yy&type=PDF from xxxx"
> >
> > and the download fails.
> >
> > We are doing almost the exact same thing with a servlet, and no such
error
> > happens.  Any ideas?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > John
> >
> >
> >
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