Thanks!! Actually, it's a java based app on the WebSphere app server that sends the response to Apache web server which in turn sends the response to the browser. I tested the reports directly on the App server which are working fine. I suspect something is wrong in the apache config. I also checked mime.types file which includes pdf entry.
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Brian Mearns <mearn...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Marcin 'Rambo' Roguski > <ra...@id.uw.edu.pl> wrote: > > On Tue, 3 Nov 2009 14:20:27 -0500 > > b k <bk4...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> Hi all, > >> PDF reports are not being generated on any browser. [...]Any help would > be greatly > >> appreciated!!!! > > > > Send Content-Type: application/pdf or application/octet-stream from your > PDF generator > > text/html is just plain wrong. > > > > -- > > Maslow's Maxim: > > If the only tool you have is a hammer, you treat everything like > > a nail. > > > > Well what's generating the PDF's? If they're coming from a file, you > need to configure Apache to correctly detect the mime type (as with > mod_mime: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_mime.html). Or if > they're all accessed through a particular root URL (like > /reports/pdf/), you can use the <Location> tag and ForceType: > http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/core.html#forcetype. > > If it's being generated by a server side script, you can try the above > <Location> method, or better, just get your script to generate the > correct Content-Type header. If you're using PHP, the default mime > type if you don't say otherwise is usually text/html, as you found, > but you can use the header() function to send the CT header like: > header("Content-Type: application/pdf"). > > -Brian > > -- > Feel free to contact me using PGP Encryption: > Key Id: 0x3AA70848 > Available from: http://keys.gnupg.net > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. > See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org > " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org > >
