Oracle Report Server pdf report

I am running a report via a URL through rwservlet. The settings are DESFORMAT=pdf&DESTYPE=cache
The report runs and displays via Adobe Reader in the IE window the URL was submitted on. The is exactly the behaviour we want.
When we choose the Adobe save button it pops up the save dialog box with the URL as the filename. We do not want it to do that. We want to suggest a filename to use.
I tried setting the Content Disposition as suggested in other postings. I set it to "inline" and gave it a filename via a parameter on the URL. It displayed the report in the IE window as we wanted - but It ignored the filename and used the URL when saving via Adobe. I set it to "attachment" and it used the filename I sent in the URL - but popped up the Save/Open dialog instead of directly displaying the report in the IE window. When you hit Open it opened a new Adobe Reader window. We definitely don't want that.
I also tried playing with mimetype as suggested in other postings. This did not do me any good either.
Is this not something that can be done? Or am I just not getting all the settings correct?

You are not alone with this irritating problem.
When i try to email the report via Acrobat Reader - the filename is: rwservlet (and no fileextension). There must be a way to overwrite this rwservlet.
I found a suggestion where a programmer suggest to redirect the output to another jsp-file - which includes Java-code...
9iasR2, rwservlet, jsp report, output pdf HttpSession losing information
Anyway isn't there a more "simple" approach...
/Henrik

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