[reportlab-users] Returning PDF to a browser?

[Dennis Allison]

As far as I know, all.  However, I have been told there are different
behaviors for different versions of IE.  For my purposes, however, I have
found that providing the mime-headers required by the standard and making 
file names end with a '.pdf' extensions did what I needed.  

On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, David Fraser wrote:

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