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user1343952
user1343952

Reputation: 69

servlet pdf coming up as text in chrome

So I have a servlet whose URL is like blah.do?params=xyz

and in the servlet my code is similar to

ServletOutputStream out = response.getOutputStream();
request.setAttribute("Content-Type","application/pdf");
request.setAttribute("Content-Disposition","attachment;filename=test.pdf");
byte[] bytes = SystemServer.getFileContents(fileId).getBytes();      
request.setAttribute("Content-Length","" + bytes.length);
out.write(bytes, 0, bytes.length);
out.flush();

I use 

window.open(url,"my file","someparams");

but chrome is opening the window as pure text and view source confirms that all that was outputted was

%PDF-1.4 %áéëÓ 2 0 obj  ..... all contents....%%EOF

So how can I force it to come up as a pdf

Whats wierd is I used identical code to get images back to the browser and it works fine

Upvotes: 0

Views: 245

Answers (2)

jt.
jt.

Reputation: 7705

You are setting several things as request attributes which should actually be set on the response.

response.setContentType("application/pdf");
response.setContentLength(bytes.length);
response.addHeader("Content-Disposition","attachment;filename=test.pdf");

Upvotes: 0

helios
helios

Reputation: 2821

You need to set those attributes on response object instead of request.

Upvotes: 1

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