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KobyBoy · 08-01-2004, 03:52 PM

I've got a peculiar problem. On one of my sites users have an option to look at PDF documents. I have a PHP file that does a "Content-type: application/pdf" before sending any HTML to the browser and then connects to the database and reads the PDF file from there (as you can tell I store all the PDFs in the database). For some reason when I request a PDF file from IE I actually get the binary data of the PDF displayed in the browser. When I use FireFox the Acrobat Reader Plug-In kicks in and the PDF document gets displayed correctly inside the Acrobat Reader Plug-In. Any idea on how to fix this issue so it will work correctly with IE ?

08-01-2004, 03:52 PM
KobyBoy Confirmed User Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Purgatory Posts: 201	Displaying PDFs I've got a peculiar problem. On one of my sites users have an option to look at PDF documents. I have a PHP file that does a "Content-type: application/pdf" before sending any HTML to the browser and then connects to the database and reads the PDF file from there (as you can tell I store all the PDFs in the database). For some reason when I request a PDF file from IE I actually get the binary data of the PDF displayed in the browser. When I use FireFox the Acrobat Reader Plug-In kicks in and the PDF document gets displayed correctly inside the Acrobat Reader Plug-In. Any idea on how to fix this issue so it will work correctly with IE ?