Servlets and PDFs

Question

I am going nuts here. I am trying to develop a servlet that serves PDF files. I do not have any starting HTML pages. Rather I just invoke the servlet that will serve a specific file by calling its URL. In IE v5.5 I get the OPEN/SAVE dialog box. When I click on open It comes up 2 more times before it acctually opens the file. If I choose SAVE it only comes up one time. I have read about the issue of IE making 3 GET requests when dowloading MIME files. However my servlet writes each request it gets to a log file and lists the headers of each request and their values. I only get entries in the log file after the third time the OPEN/SAVE box came up. The first two times it does nothing. As if though the service() method of the servlet never got invoked the first two times, which means the browser DID NOT send a GET requestCan anyone help or point me in direction of a solution.
Thanks

Answer 1

I apologize about the double post. I also wanted to mention that this only occurs in IE whne I include the
setHeader("Content-Disposition","attachement;file"..........) method in my servlet. Without it or if I make the Content-Disposition=inline the problem does not occur.
I would still like to give the option of saving before opening so the attachement;file disposition is desireable but without having to click the OPEN FROM LOCATION 3 times before viewing the file.