Force opening of PDFs

berbbrown

Hi All

I have spent a long while looking through PHPBuilder for help on forcing a browser to open a PDF rathet than display a dialog asking if the user wants open, save or cancel.

I cannot find a solution which actually works. There is lots of solutions/suggestions but they don't work. I have the following code:

header("Pragma: ");
header("Cache-Control: ");
header("Content-type: application/pdf");
header("Content-Disposition: inline; filename="mypdf.pdf");
header("Content-length:".(string)(filesize(mypdf.pdf)));
header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: octet-stream");
header("Content-Description: My pdf");
readfile('mypdf.pdf');

The first two lines are required for a https connection. I have tried both octet-stream and binary.

Can anyone help me please?

Thanks in advance.

drew010

i dont think its possible to force the browser to open it as that would be a large security threat because you could easily do the same with an exe file and load a virus. im sure there is some tricky activex or javascript code out there that can be used to open it, but it probably only works for internet explorer and would probably also be flagged by many antivirus programs.