Setting the filename of inline objects

Question

I am working on a website where we dynamically build up pdf files and display them in the browser (inline) to the user. However, when you click on Save As on the pdf file's menu, the filename is set to the url to that page. Is there anyway to specify a different name? (without saving a temporary file on the server everytime a user wants to do this)
Below is the code that builds up the content:
byte[] content = objXSLT.transform_pdf(strXHTML, map);
response.setContentType("application/pdf");
response.addHeader("Content-Disposition", "inline; filename=\"test1234.pdf\"");
response.setContentLength(content.length);
OutputStream outStream = response.getOutputStream();
outStream.write(content);I've also attempted to send the file as an attachment instead of inline. When I do this the user can only save the file. If they attempt to open it then Adobe Reader complains and says that it couldn't find the file. I'm assuming this is because the file doesn't actually exist on the server. Is there any way around this (minus the temp file again)?

Answer 1

Hi,
In the past I have used the following code which gets a file (any type) from the database, and allows the user to download it. I was able to open any type of file with the OS's default helper app (i.e. MS Word or Adobe Acrobat). In my case, the file only exists in the database and NOT as a file on the server. So maybe this is similiar to your situation:
  protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
  throws ServletException, IOException {
    ServletOutputStream out = response.getOutputStream();
    // GET PARAMETERS FROM REQUEST
    String id = request.getParameter("id");
    String type = request.getParameter("type");
    String contentType = request.getParameter("ct");
    String docName = request.getParameter("docName");
    byte[] downloadData = getBlob(id, docName, type);
    //response.setContentType(contentType);
    response.setContentType("*/*");
    response.setHeader("Content-disposition",
                  "attachment; filename=" +
                  currentDownloadFilename );
    out.write( downloadData );
    out.flush();
    out.close();
  }I'm not sure that this helps you much though, since it is practically what you have already.