[reportlab-users] Returning PDF to a browser?

[David Fraser]

Dennis Allison wrote:

>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.
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Do you know which particular versions of IE this applies to?

Thanks
David

>On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, David Fraser wrote:
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>>Andy Robinson wrote:
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>>>>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
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>>>>David
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>>>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.
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>>>Can you repeat the problem with a particular version of IE?
>>>Have you tried other browsers?
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>>>Thanks,
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>>>Andy Robinson
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>>Hi Andy
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>>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
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>>Thanks
>>David
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