can't display PDF!!

[simulant]

I have a script that creates a PDF dynamically using PDFlib. That part works great......I just can't seem to send the right http header back to the browser to display the PDF. I want the PDF to open in the same location as the script, so I DON'T want to use the "Location" header!

Anyway, here's what I have:

/*
code to create pdf.....
resulting document is stored in $pdffile....
*/

header("Content-Type: application/pdf");
readfile($pdffile);

All I get when I execute this is the byte stream of the pdf file! Shouldn't the browser know what to do with the file contents since I'm sending the "Content-Type" header??

[simulant]

Seems there is a flaw in how Internet Explorer handles the Content-Disposition and Content-Type headers. My script works in Netscape 7, and on at least one machine with IE 6. There is a patch that can be downloaded to fix this problem:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=313675

Does anyone know of a workaround for IE that will not require the patch??