PDF Issues in IE

furnissg

Help, im having issue opening pdf's in IE, im basicly outputting a pdf to a browser by reading the file in then printing it out. The headers set are

header('Content-Type: application/pdf');
header('Content-Length: '.$file_size);
header('Content-Disposition: inline; filename="document.pdf"');

now this works fine on the local server in both IE and Firefox, however when i try and put it on the live server IE just asks wether i want to open or save "Adobe Acrobat Control for ActiveX". It works fine in firefox.

the headers sent on the live server show as

HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 12:11:25 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.33 (Unix)
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Content-Disposition: inline; filename="document.pdf"
Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
Pragma: no-cache
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.4.4
Content-Length: 229287
Connection: close
Content-Type: application/pdf

has anyone come accross the same problem and possibly a soloution?

Kudose

From the manual:

If you want the user to be prompted to save the data you are sending, such as a generated PDF file, you can use the Content-Disposition header to supply a recommended filename and force the browser to display the save dialog.

<?php
// We'll be outputting a PDF
header('Content-type: application/pdf');

// It will be called downloaded.pdf
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="downloaded.pdf"');

// The PDF source is in original.pdf
readfile('original.pdf');
?>

I can't say for sure, but I think problem is probably your Content-Disposition.

furnissg

thanks for the reply, unfortunatly neither attachment or inline works. Both bring up the same problem. i just cant see why it works on the internal server and not on the live server. only thing i can think of is the way the difference in server versions handles the headers. its driving me mad now, grrr