Hi!
I am running a webapp under Tomcat 5.5 with Coyote HTTPConnector as a web server. I would need to serve some static content from this server: there is a servlet-generated html content, which is displayed on the client's browser. This html content embeds a link to a PDF document, something like this:
Firefox browser goves user the choice to open or save it, bit IE just tells that it is unable to display the page.
I found some clues on the topic which tells I should set the following http headers:
But as the stream is not from a servlet, jus a generated html text, I did not found where to set what.
Tried to set various mime-types in the web.xml, but it had no effect.
Additional information: I am not the developer of the mentioned application, I just manage the environement for it. Thus there is a little arguement on whose job is to change someting to make this work.
Can you help me out of this?
--Trifo
I am running a webapp under Tomcat 5.5 with Coyote HTTPConnector as a web server. I would need to serve some static content from this server: there is a servlet-generated html content, which is displayed on the client's browser. This html content embeds a link to a PDF document, something like this:
Code:
<A href="[URL unfurl="true"]http://service.myserver.com/service/tmp/generated_report.pdf"[/URL] > click to view report </A>Firefox browser goves user the choice to open or save it, bit IE just tells that it is unable to display the page.
I found some clues on the topic which tells I should set the following http headers:
Code:
Content-disposition=attachement
Pragma publicBut as the stream is not from a servlet, jus a generated html text, I did not found where to set what.
Tried to set various mime-types in the web.xml, but it had no effect.
Additional information: I am not the developer of the mentioned application, I just manage the environement for it. Thus there is a little arguement on whose job is to change someting to make this work.
Can you help me out of this?
--Trifo
