Problem serving .pdf files

[LawnBoy]

Have just loaded Apache 2.0.47-63 on SuSE 9.0. When I click on a link in my browser (IE 6.0) to view a .pdf, I get a popup from Adobe Acrobat saying "File does not begin with '%PDF-'."

Error log shows nothing. Access log shows:

10.118.36.21 - - [08/Feb/2005:11:04:29 -0600] "GET /inet_usage.pdf HTTP/1.1" 200 63483 "[URL unfurl="true"]http://10.118.36.11"[/URL] "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; CW20030114)"

10.118.36.21 - - [08/Feb/2005:11:04:29 -0600] "GET /inet_usage.pdf HTTP/1.1" 206 56483 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; CW20030114)"

If I now simply click reload in my browser I get the .pdf with no problem, and the access log shows:

10.118.36.21 - - [08/Feb/2005:11:14:18 -0600] "GET /inet_usage.pdf HTTP/1.1" 200 63483 "-" "contype"

10.118.36.21 - - [08/Feb/2005:11:14:18 -0600] "GET /inet_usage.pdf HTTP/1.1" 206 63483 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; CW20030114)"

This is happening with multiple .pdf files. The same .pdf files serve up just fine on Netware6.5/Apache2 and on IIS. I have given the files all rights.

Can somebody buy me a clue? Thanks in advance.

 

[LawnBoy]

I have found a solution. In the file /etc/mime.types there is a line that says

application/pdf

Replace that with

application/x-pdf

...and everything works like it's supposed to.