Re: Returning application/pdf through WebSphere and IE

 I had the same problem (pdf sent from memory displayed as blank) with IE
5.5 SP 1. Load SP 2 to IE 5.5 resolved this problem. All other versions of
IE and browsers are OK. I have not tried IE 6. Maybe I need to do that.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Richards, Etienne (CAP, PTL)" <Etienne.Richards@penske.com>
To: <java400-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 1:02 PM
Subject: Returning application/pdf through WebSphere and IE


> All,
>
> Environment:
> OS/400 V4R5
> WebSphere 3.5.4
>
> Our application dynamically generates a PDF file in memory and the servlet
> sends the pdf byte stream back to the browser. This works fine in the
> VisualAge 4.0 WebSphere Test Environment but it produces a blank page when
> it runs on the AS/400 when viewed from Internet Explorer 6.0 (Netscape
works
> fine even it runs on the AS/400).
>
> I have searched around and saw that there are many questions regarding
this
> but not many answers. I have done the following:
>
> 1. The content type is set correctly.
> 2. I did set the content length of the response object.
> 3. I did flush the output stream.
>
> Has anybody been able to stream dynamically generated pdf's back to IE
from
> WebSphere running on the AS/400? Please tell me what you had to do to make
> it work.
>
> I am using the iText library but I do not think that the problem is there.
>
> Etienne
>
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