Signing a pdf in web browser

I am setting up a web application where a person can open a PDF in their browser and sign a signature field in a PDF form. Once they sign it they can click a submit button in the PDF form and it submits the form data via HTTP (not FDF or XFDF).
They can sign it, but when the form is submitted back to the web server the signature data is not part of the form data.
Is there any way to get the signature data in the form data that the PDF is sending?
Thanks!

Yes the pdf is opening in adobe. But I don't want to open a new adobe browser to open.
I want to display in the current web browser where my application is running.
eg. if u are embedding pdf file like this.
<EMBED src="temp1.pdf" width ="750" height="550"></EMBED>
It won't open the new window. It displays the result in the current window.
I have my pdf content in byte array. To wirte the above code i need a file. I even writes the byte array to a temporary pdf file. But I can't able to import that file dynamically to the WSAD workspace.
Is there any other way to embed the (byte array)pdf file in the current window.
Please advice me.
Thanks in advance.

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