Sheldon,
I had a similar problem with Excel sheets, below is what finally worked.
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//set response header, content type and content length
response.setHeader("Content-Disposition","inline;filename=Report_" +
reportName.replaceAll(" ","").replaceAll("/","") + ".xls");
response.setContentType( "application/vnd.ms-excel" );
response.setContentLength( (int)stringBuffer.length() );
ServletOutputStream outputStream = response.getOutputStream();
//put to output stream
outputStream.write( stringBuffer.toString().getBytes() );
outputStream.close();
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Claude.
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 1:48 PM
Subject: RE: Streaming PDF file problem
> BTW, the code for streaming a servlet works perfectly as a stand alone
> servlet, but fails for IE in the struts framework.
>
> Sheldon
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Chan, Sheldon
> > Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 9:36 AM
> > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> > Subject: Streaming PDF file problem
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm trying to stream a PDF from a Struts action by writing an array of
> > bytes to the OutputStream of HttpServletResponse. It works great in
> > Mozilla, however it fails on IE. When I attempt to execute the action, IE
> > brings up its "Save or Open" dialogue box with the request Url as the file
> > it's trying to save. When I click on "Save", it gives me an error
> > dialogue of "Internet Explorer cannot download... ". Any ideas?
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any help.
> >
> > Sheldon
> >
> >
> > Here's the psuedo-code.
> >
> > OutputStream outputstream = null;
> >
> > try {
> > byte[] responseBytes = getBody().getBytes(ENCODING);
> >
> > response.setContentType("application/pdf");
> > response.setContentLength(responseBytes.length);
> > response.setHeader("Content-Disposition",
> > "attachment; filename=myfile.pdf");
> > response.setHeader("Pragma", "no cache");
> > response.setHeader("Cache-Control", "no-cache");
> >
> > outputStream = response.getOutputStream();
> >
> > outputStream.write(responseBytes, 0, responseBytes.length);
> > } catch (Exception e) {
> > // do something
> > } finally {
> > outputStream.close();
> > }
> >
>
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