Re: pdf report generation - content type text/html

[b k <bk4web@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks!! Actually, it's a java based app on the WebSphere app server that sends the response to Apache web server which in turn sends the response to the browser. I tested the reports directly on the App server which are working fine. I suspect something is wrong in the apache config. I also checked mime.types file which includes pdf entry.

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Brian Mearns <mearns.b@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Marcin 'Rambo' Roguski
<rambo@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Nov 2009 14:20:27 -0500
> b k <bk4web@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>> PDF reports are not being generated on any browser. [...]Any help would be greatly
>> appreciated!!!!
>
> Send Content-Type: application/pdf or application/octet-stream from your PDF generator
> text/html is just plain wrong.
>
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Well what's generating the PDF's? If they're coming from a file, you
need to configure Apache to correctly detect the mime type (as with
mod_mime: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_mime.html). Or if
they're all accessed through a particular root URL (like
/reports/pdf/), you can use the <Location> tag and ForceType:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/core.html#forcetype.

If it's being generated by a server side script, you can try the above
<Location> method, or better, just get your script to generate the
correct Content-Type header. If you're using PHP, the default mime
type if you don't say otherwise is usually text/html, as you found,
but you can use the header() function to send the CT header like:
header("Content-Type: application/pdf").

-Brian

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