Mark Ivs wrote:
I have a link on my page. When the user clicks on
the link, it is supposed to open a pdf file in a new
window. Instead when you click on the link a window
opens and immediately an IE message window opens
asking if I want to save or open the file. For some
reason IE thinks I am trying to download the file.
1. Did you set the content type to application/pdf, or did
you deliver the PDF as attachment to a text/plain or
text/hmtl content stream?
2. Did you set the content length? IEx is often unable to
process PDF correctly until the content length is set
correctly. This means the PDF stream has to be buffered
in the server. Mozilla/Netscape doesn't have this problem.
3. Does the URL pointing to the PDF content end in .pdf? IEx
likes to second-guess the content type, in all versions
up to IEx 6, but with varying flavors. In particular if
the base URL and/or the query string ends with a string
which looks like a file extension associated with a
content type for some "executable content", depending
on the security settings IEx will attempt download the
content to a file rather than starting the associated
program. This also depends on what software is installed
on the machine on which the browser runs, in particular
IIS should *not* be installed there if the server is IIS
too.
None of the above is a problem with Mozilla/Netscape.
J.Pietschmann
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