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Posted to fop-dev@xmlgraphics.apache.org by Raúl Carazo <rc...@bilbomatica.es> on 2001/12/07 14:05:12 UTC
Problems with seeing pdf-files in IE 5.0
I'm trying to see a pdf-report, created dinamically with an XML-XSL process. But if I try to see it with an IE 5.0, I see just a blank page with an icon. If I try it with an IE 5.5, I can see it with no problem.
Why is it? And there is a solution, because I cannot change the browser to 5.5?
thx
Raul Carazo
Re: Problems with seeing pdf-files in IE 5.0
Posted by Matt Savino <ma...@synergizethis.com>.
All my urls are .jsp and I don't have a problem with IE 4-5-6
recognizing them as PDF--as long as I set the response contentType. I
have a myriad of other problems with older verisons of IE, but this is
not one of them.
Cyril Rognon wrote:
>
> It has been reported many times that IE5.0 needs some strong mime type
> information
> : not only you must set the content-type HTTP header to
> "application/pdf" but you also have to use an url with ".pdf" at the
> end...
>
> Cyril Rognon
>
> At 14:05 07/12/2001 +0100, you wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to see a pdf-report, created dinamically with an
> > XML-XSL process. But if I try to see it with an IE 5.0, I see just a
> > blank page with an icon. If I try it with an IE 5.5, I can see it
> > with no problem.
> >
> > Why is it? And there is a solution, because I cannot change the
> > browser to 5.5?
> >
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Re: Problems with seeing pdf-files in IE 5.0
Posted by Stephan Kassanke <ka...@gmx.de>.
and use "?" as the separator not "&" ...
Stephan
----- Original Message -----
From: Stephan Kassanke
To: fop-dev@xml.apache.org
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 3:04 PM
Subject: Re: Problems with seeing pdf-files in IE 5.0
Hi Cyril, we had a similar problem, the solution is simple: just put a dummy parameter at the end, like
http://www.somewhere.com/myjsp.jsp&dummy=my.pdf
This will cause IE 5.0 to display the pdf in the browser.
Stephan
----- Original Message -----
From: Cyril Rognon
To: fop-dev@xml.apache.org
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 2:43 PM
Subject: Re: Problems with seeing pdf-files in IE 5.0
It has been reported many times that IE5.0 needs some strong mime type information
: not only you must set the content-type HTTP header to "application/pdf" but you also have to use an url with ".pdf" at the end...
Cyril Rognon
At 14:05 07/12/2001 +0100, you wrote:
I'm trying to see a pdf-report, created dinamically with an XML-XSL process. But if I try to see it with an IE 5.0, I see just a blank page with an icon. If I try it with an IE 5.5, I can see it with no problem.
Why is it? And there is a solution, because I cannot change the browser to 5.5?
Re: Problems with seeing pdf-files in IE 5.0
Posted by Stephan Kassanke <ka...@gmx.de>.
Hi Cyril, we had a similar problem, the solution is simple: just put a dummy parameter at the end, like
http://www.somewhere.com/myjsp.jsp&dummy=my.pdf
This will cause IE 5.0 to display the pdf in the browser.
Stephan
----- Original Message -----
From: Cyril Rognon
To: fop-dev@xml.apache.org
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 2:43 PM
Subject: Re: Problems with seeing pdf-files in IE 5.0
It has been reported many times that IE5.0 needs some strong mime type information
: not only you must set the content-type HTTP header to "application/pdf" but you also have to use an url with ".pdf" at the end...
Cyril Rognon
At 14:05 07/12/2001 +0100, you wrote:
I'm trying to see a pdf-report, created dinamically with an XML-XSL process. But if I try to see it with an IE 5.0, I see just a blank page with an icon. If I try it with an IE 5.5, I can see it with no problem.
Why is it? And there is a solution, because I cannot change the browser to 5.5?
Re: Problems with seeing pdf-files in IE 5.0
Posted by Cyril Rognon <cr...@objectiva.fr>.
That's the trick if you have to use .pdf ended url, use the query string
like Jamestold you to.
This is a particular IE5.0 pb, and some times it does not appear, the
response content type may be enough.
Cyril Rognon
At 15:05 07/12/2001 +0000, you wrote:
>Jim Urban wrote:
>
>So how do you use a url that ends
>>with .pdf when using servlets?
>
>
>I think you can do
>
>http://any.url/servlets/Blah?stuff=.pdf
>
>but not certain....
>
>James
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RE: Problems with seeing pdf-files in IE 5.0 | Specification of folder for XML/XSL files under Cocoon 2
Posted by Matthias Fischer <m....@abc-media.de>.
Yes, that syntax works definitively and was used by us as long as we
utilized FOP under Cocoon 1. Cocoon 2 does not present this url problem any
more.
It presents another one, though: XML files cannot be specified to lie in
_any_ folder (Windows version of Tomcat/Cocoon), they must be placed in a
specific location deep down in the file system, under
"Tomcat\webapps\cocoon..." (at least, this is our sys admin's statement). We
find this a slightly cumbersome solution.
Has anybody made a contrasting (=better) experience?
Matthias
-----Original Message-----
From: James Richardson [mailto:james.richardson@db.com]
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 4:05 PM
To: fop-dev@xml.apache.org
Subject: Re: Problems with seeing pdf-files in IE 5.0
Jim Urban wrote:
So how do you use a url that ends
> with .pdf when using servlets?
>
I think you can do
http://any.url/servlets/Blah?stuff=.pdf
but not certain....
James
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Re: Problems with seeing pdf-files in IE 5.0
Posted by James Richardson <ja...@db.com>.
Jim Urban wrote:
So how do you use a url that ends
> with .pdf when using servlets?
>
I think you can do
http://any.url/servlets/Blah?stuff=.pdf
but not certain....
James
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RE: Problems with seeing pdf-files in IE 5.0
Posted by Jim Urban <ji...@netsteps.net>.
Here is the real problem. When the servlet is posted to, the browser has no
knowledge of what type of data will be sent back. We have a single servlet
which looks at the request and calls the appropriate class to process the
request. The request then sends XML back to the servlet. Then based upon
the presence of the parameter "print" in the http request, our servlet
attempts to locate the XSL:FO file that maps to the request. If the XSL:FO
file is found, we FOP the XML and send back PDF. Otherwise we use a
XSL:HTML file and send back a HTML page. Our clients are responsible for
providing XSL:FO files for the pages they want PDF prints. The XSL:FO files
are optional and may or may not exist.
Jim
-----Original Message-----
From: Alex McLintock [mailto:alexmc@yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 11:05 AM
To: fop-dev@xml.apache.org
Subject: RE: Problems with seeing pdf-files in IE 5.0
--- Jim Urban <ji...@netsteps.net> wrote: > > you also have to use an
url with ".pdf" at the
end
> The url the client is posting to is a servlet which uses FOP to generate a
> PDF and feed it back to the browser. If the client post a request to
> myservlet.pdf the server will look for a file called myservlet.pdf and
> return a 403 when it can't find it. So how do you use a url that ends
with
> .pdf when using servlets?
If you can't set up an alias in the webserver as people have suggested you
could
always have a servlet class called "pdf" within a package "myservlet".
End result: myservlet.pdf
Could have sworn this was in the FAQ.
Oh dear - that means the FAQ isn't good enough yet....
Alex
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RE: Problems with seeing pdf-files in IE 5.0
Posted by Alex McLintock <al...@yahoo.com>.
--- Jim Urban <ji...@netsteps.net> wrote: > > you also have to use an url with ".pdf" at the
end
> The url the client is posting to is a servlet which uses FOP to generate a
> PDF and feed it back to the browser. If the client post a request to
> myservlet.pdf the server will look for a file called myservlet.pdf and
> return a 403 when it can't find it. So how do you use a url that ends with
> .pdf when using servlets?
If you can't set up an alias in the webserver as people have suggested you could
always have a servlet class called "pdf" within a package "myservlet".
End result: myservlet.pdf
Could have sworn this was in the FAQ.
Oh dear - that means the FAQ isn't good enough yet....
Alex
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Go to http://uk.promotions.yahoo.com/nokia/ discover and win it!
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RE: Problems with seeing pdf-files in IE 5.0
Posted by Jim Urban <ji...@netsteps.net>.
> you also have to use an url with ".pdf" at the end
The url the client is posting to is a servlet which uses FOP to generate a
PDF and feed it back to the browser. If the client post a request to
myservlet.pdf the server will look for a file called myservlet.pdf and
return a 403 when it can't find it. So how do you use a url that ends with
.pdf when using servlets?
Jim
-----Original Message-----
From: Cyril Rognon [mailto:crognon@objectiva.fr]
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 7:43 AM
To: fop-dev@xml.apache.org
Subject: Re: Problems with seeing pdf-files in IE 5.0
It has been reported many times that IE5.0 needs some strong mime type
information
: not only you must set the content-type HTTP header to "application/pdf"
but you also have to use an url with ".pdf" at the end...
Cyril Rognon
At 14:05 07/12/2001 +0100, you wrote:
I'm trying to see a pdf-report, created dinamically with an XML-XSL
process. But if I try to see it with an IE 5.0, I see just a blank page with
an icon. If I try it with an IE 5.5, I can see it with no problem.
Why is it? And there is a solution, because I cannot change the
browser to 5.5?
Re: Problems with seeing pdf-files in IE 5.0
Posted by Cyril Rognon <cr...@objectiva.fr>.
It has been reported many times that IE5.0 needs some strong mime type
information
: not only you must set the content-type HTTP header to "application/pdf"
but you also have to use an url with ".pdf" at the end...
Cyril Rognon
At 14:05 07/12/2001 +0100, you wrote:
> I'm trying to see a pdf-report, created dinamically with an XML-XSL
> process. But if I try to see it with an IE 5.0, I see just a blank page
> with an icon. If I try it with an IE 5.5, I can see it with no problem.
>
> Why is it? And there is a solution, because I cannot change the
> browser to 5.5?