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David:

Try posting it in the servlets-jsp newsgroup here.

-Rich

David Hanson wrote:
> 
> Not sure where to post this so I'll try here...
> 
> I've written a set of java servlets that return a variety of data to the
> browser for display.  Most of the time it's strings... XML, and such.  Now I
> want to return a PDF document.  I programmably create my PDF, turn it into a
> stream (not a file) set the response.setContentType to be application/pdf
> and IE does not know what it is.  Netscape have no problem with it at all.
> I was wondering what, if any, is the correct way to tell IE the content type
> for my PDF.
> 
> code sample
> 
> --creates a new XML parser
>     UTL_xml mxml = new UTL_xml();
> --loads it with the current thing to be done
>     mxml.loadXML(strResponse);
> --if it finds the tTAG in the XML doc
>     if( mxml.isFound("DAT.CONTENT")
> 
> --get the content type (application/pdf)  and set it
>       setContentType(mxml.getField("DAT.CONTENT"));
> 
> --set the content type on the Servlet responce  object
>       response.setContentType(getContentType());
> 
> --write the sftream out to the response outgoing stream
>       curPD.getOutputstream().writeTo(response.getOutputStream());
> }
> blah blah blah
> 
> Thanks
> Dave