Opening PDF with in the browser..!

Question

Hi,
I have written a servlet which basically reads the .pdf files from the webserver and writes them to the browser on request using OutputStream. The problem is my servlet is working fine, but it gives me the options wether to open or to save it to the disk.,which i dont want. and also it opens the file in a new window when i say open. Please give me some ideas how do i make it open in the same window with out any options when the user clicks on the link. ur help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Hi this will sure help u
try {
                    OutputStream out = null;
               File f = new File(configResourceBundle.getString(AdvertConstants.DIR_ADVERT_STORE_ADVERT), fileName);
               FileInputStream istr = new FileInputStream(f);
               BufferedInputStream bstr = new BufferedInputStream( istr );
               int size = (int) f.length(); // get the file size (in bytes)
               byte[] data = new byte[size]; // allocate byte array of right size
               bstr.read( data, 0, size ); // read into byte array
               bstr.close();
               response.setHeader("Cache-Control", "no-cache");
               response.setDateHeader("Expires", 0);
               response.setHeader("Pragma", "No-cache");
               response.setContentType("application/pdf");
               response.setHeader("Content-Disposition","inline; filename="+
                         configResourceBundle.getString(AdvertConstants.DIR_ADVERT_STORE_ADVERT)+
                         configResourceBundle.getString(AdvertConstants.PATH_SEPARATOR)+fileName     );
               out= response.getOutputStream();
               out.write(data);
               out.flush();
               out.close();
               }catch(Exception e ){
               e.printStackTrace();
          }