IE6 and sending PDF

[Gregor Rot]

Hi, i am sending a pdf file to IE6 and just want the browser to open it
directly without asking anything.

This doesn't work:

Content-type: application/pdf
Content-length: size_of_file
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=somefile.pdf

then i send the data.

This results in: the browser asking to save or open the file, and it
works fine.

Now, according to documentation, if i remove the Content-disposition,
the browser should open it directly in the frame. Anyone been doing that
with success?

tnx,
Greg

[John Dunlop]

Gregor Rot wrote:

Hi, i am sending a pdf file to IE6 and just want the browser to open it
directly without asking anything.
Then configure your sorry excuse for a browser to do that. Try
searching the archives of the microsoft.* hierarchy if you can't
figure it out.
[...] Now, according to documentation, if i remove the Content-
disposition, the browser should open it directly in the frame.

I sincerely doubt that any documentation would say that. What
documentation are you talking about? The Manual? RFC1806? RFC2616-
conforming software needn't follow Content-Disposition header
suggestions.

You might of course use the inline disposition type (RFC1806, sec.
2.1). That's no guarantee of anything though.

--
Jock

[Gregor Rot]

John Dunlop wrote:

Gregor Rot wrote:

Hi, i am sending a pdf file to IE6 and just want the browser to open it
directly without asking anything.

Then configure your sorry excuse for a browser to do that. Try
searching the archives of the microsoft.* hierarchy if you can't
figure it out.

[...] Now, according to documentation, if i remove the Content-
disposition, the browser should open it directly in the frame.

I sincerely doubt that any documentation would say that. What
documentation are you talking about? The Manual? RFC1806? RFC2616-
conforming software needn't follow Content-Disposition header
suggestions.

You might of course use the inline disposition type (RFC1806, sec.
2.1). That's no guarantee of anything though.

Take it easy - i am correcting myself - without Disposition, the browser
should take the default action (either opening the pdf in a separate
Acrobat instance or loading the ActiveX console inside the browser.

Content-type: application/pdf
Content-length: size_of_file
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=somefile.pdf

With this code, i get a dialog from IE, "Save", "Open", by clicking Open
the PDF is opened in a new Acrobat instance, i want it to be opened in
the browser. How can i do that?

[Farhan]

Gregor Rot <za*********@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<dh*******************@news.siol.net>...

Hi, i am sending a pdf file to IE6 and just want the browser to open it
directly without asking anything.

This doesn't work:

Content-type: application/pdf
Content-length: size_of_file
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=somefile.pdf

then i send the data.

This results in: the browser asking to save or open the file, and it
works fine.

Now, according to documentation, if i remove the Content-disposition,
the browser should open it directly in the frame. Anyone been doing that
with success?

Content-Disposition: inline; filename=somefile.pdf tnx,
Greg

[Gregor Rot]

Farhan wrote:

Gregor Rot <za*********@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<dh*******************@news.siol.net>...

Hi, i am sending a pdf file to IE6 and just want the browser to open it
directly without asking anything.

This doesn't work:

Content-type: application/pdf
Content-length: size_of_file
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=somefile.pdf

then i send the data.

This results in: the browser asking to save or open the file, and it
works fine.

Now, according to documentation, if i remove the Content-disposition,
the browser should open it directly in the frame. Anyone been doing that
with success?

Content-Disposition: inline; filename=somefile.pdf

tnx,
Greg
I have resolved the problem:

Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=somefile.pdf
By changing the upper line to:
Content-Disposition: filename=somefile.pdf

(omitting the "attachment"), IE takes the default behaviour and opens
the PDF within the browser (loading the ActiveX of Acrobat).

Greg

[John Dunlop]

Gregor Rot wrote:

I have resolved the problem:

The real problem was with your "browser", not how you serve the file.
Configure it to behave as you wish.

>>> Content-Disposition: filename=somefile.pdf

That is a malformed Content-Disposition header according to RFC1806
sec. 2 (and RFC1506, sec. 4). A disposition type, or extension-token
is required.

--
Jock

[John Dunlop]

John Dunlop wrote:

That is a malformed Content-Disposition header according to RFC1806
sec. 2 (and RFC1506, sec. 4).

-----------------^^^^
That should be RFC1521. Oops.

--
Jock

[Gregor Rot]

John Dunlop wrote:

Gregor Rot wrote:

I have resolved the problem:

The real problem was with your "browser", not how you serve the file.
Configure it to behave as you wish.

>>> Content-Disposition: filename=somefile.pdf

That is a malformed Content-Disposition header according to RFC1806
sec. 2 (and RFC1506, sec. 4). A disposition type, or extension-token
is required.

Well you are wrong somewhere, because if i point my browser to a regular
pdf file on a site, IE opens it within the browser.

If i serve the file over the described php program, i get a dialog
(Open, Save, etc, and Open opens a new Acrobat instance), all that
assuming: "Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=somefile.pdf"
^^^^^^^^^^^

So i don't have any problem with my browser setup, it's a disposition
problem. If "attachment" is written, the browser treats the data as "an
attachment", and automatically offers the dialog Open, Save, etc...

Seeing your knowledge of the RFCs and all I would be very happy if you
could write the correct disposition for the desidered behaviour (sending
a pdf, and making IE behave like receiving a regular pdf file, opening
it within the browser - this is the default IE setup after Acrobat
Reader is installed = an ActiveX control is installed and opened
automatically after clicking on a pdf file on a site, opening the file
in the ActiveX control, loaded in the browser).

tnx,
Greg

[Agelmar]

Gregor Rot wrote:
<snip>

Seeing your knowledge of the RFCs and all I would be very happy if you
could write the correct disposition for the desidered behaviour

<snip>

Can you not read? He's already posted it 5 times in this thread.
Content-Disposition: inline; filename=somefile.pdf

you cannot just say content-disposition: filename=something, you have to
specify thedisposition! inline is what you want, and he posted that multiple
times.

[Gregor Rot]

Agelmar wrote:

Gregor Rot wrote:
<snip>

Seeing your knowledge of the RFCs and all I would be very happy if you
could write the correct disposition for the desidered behaviour

<snip>

Can you not read? He's already posted it 5 times in this thread.
Content-Disposition: inline; filename=somefile.pdf

you cannot just say content-disposition: filename=something, you have to
specify thedisposition! inline is what you want, and he posted that multiple
times.

Uh sorry, i see, it was mentioned in the first post, not many times,
tnx. It works.

Greg