Subject: Streaming PDF from servlet problem 2007-11-06 - By John L
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Strange problem, I use the following method to stream a pdf to a browser
private void streamToDownload(HttpServletResponse response,
ByteArrayOutputStream baos, String contentType,
String downloadFileName) throws ServletException
{
try
{
ServletOutputStream servletOutputStream =
response.getOutputStream();
byte[] bytes = baos.toByteArray();
servletOutputStream.write(bytes, 0, bytes.length);
response.setContentType(contentType);
response.setHeader("content-disposition", "attachment;
filename=" + downloadFileName);
response.setContentLength(bytes.length);
servletOutputStream.flush();
servletOutputStream.close();
}
catch (IOException e)
{
throw new ServletException(e);
}
}
It works fine, the user is prompted to save or open the file in the default
application.
However; this is the weird part, as soon as an image is added to the PDF, or
another PDF is used as a background for the PDF created with iText, the pdf
opens in the browser, not at all the behaviour I want.
Is there something about images or PDFs that "over rides" the content
dispostion? That doesn't make sense, but if I had an explantion for this
behaviour I wouldn't be posting here right?
Thanks for any help
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