Unable to View PDF in Browser from a Servlet.

Question

Hi,
I am facing a problem while trying to dynamically generate PDF from a Servlet and display it in the browser(IE 6.0 sp2)
The scenario is as follows:
i have a link which on clicking (using javascript) moves to a Servlet(say Dispatcher Servlet).This servlet forwards the control to another Servlet(say PDF Renderer Servlet) which generates the PDF and tries to display the results to the browser.
The PDF does get generated.
However in the pop-up i get a alert message to either open or save the PDF.But when i try to do so the message i get is that IE failed to communicate with the server.
The code i am using to display the PDF is as follows
ByteArrayOutputStream outfile = pdfTransformer.transform(xmlString,container);
byte[] content = outfile.toByteArray();
response.setContentType("application/pdf");
response.setContentLength(content.length);
response.setHeader("Content-Disposition", "inline; filename=\"" + pdfName + "\"");
ServletOutputStream out= response.getOutputStream();
out.write(content);
out.flush();
out.close();
Any suggestions would be a great help.
Thanks

Answer 1

Hi,
I have the same code as Viv above and I am generating pdf using fdf file format. the code works upto the point where it generates pdf. I am not setting the header to open the file in the same browser or new window:
(not in my code)
response.setHeader("Content-Disposition", "inline; filename=\"" + pdfName + "\"");it was working fine last week and now it starts to give a pop up box with only one option of saving the pdf file, there is no option to open it. when I save it the data in the file is lost, its just a fblank form. I am using IE 6.0.2900
any suggestions?
Ali