[reportlab-users] Returning PDF to a browser?

[Dennis Allison]

IE is broken and ignores the content-type mime header in favor of the file
extension--hence pdf's need to have the extension.  You also need to
include the content-type and (possibly) the size mime headers for other
browsers.

On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, David Fraser wrote:

> Andy Robinson wrote:
> 
> >>You should also check for Internet Explorer that the URL actually ends 
> >>with a .pdf  as it sometimes seems to get the type from the extension 
> >>rather than the Content type in my experience
> >>
> >>David
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >When I first started doing this 3 years ago, the raw PDF would often 
> >display as you describe.  Changing executable cgi scripts from
> >'myapp.cgi' to 'myapp.pdf' was more effective than headers.
> >However, I have seen this less often in the last 2 years. 
> >It would be good to collect some data on this.
> >
> >Can you repeat the problem with a particular version of IE?
> >Have you tried other browsers?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Andy Robinson
> >  
> >
> Hi Andy
> 
> Yes, this seems to happen with IE 5, and most people have upgraded.
> It's mostly on our clients machines we have the problem, if I can work 
> it out I'll post more details here
> 
> Thanks
> David
> 
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