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Re: PDF problems in IE

by Linczak, Jonathan W. :: Rate this Message:

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On Aug 31, 2005, at 1:36 PM, Gregor J. Rothfuss wrote:

> Jonathan Linczak wrote:
>
>> Yup, that's what I was referring to.  I actually made the change to
>> our server and it doesn't seem to make a difference.  But while I'd
>> like to test with Tomcat, there's no way I'm switching back after the
>> good luck I've been having with Jetty.  :)  Here's another document
>> that has some discussion on the issue, but no real concrete answers
>> for me, unless you see something useful:  
>> http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:JUZXj0O4yXAJ:www.newsarch.com/ 
>> archive/mailinglist/comp/java/jetty/general/  
>> msg00360.html+Jetty+IE+%22The+file+is+damaged+and+could+not+be+repaire
>> d.
>>  %22&hl=en&client=firefox-a.  I'll see if the test instance of Tomcat
>>  serving the same PDF document solves the issue and post a response
>> here.
>
> "If the request for the PDF document is being handled by MSIE it  
> appears to start downloading the content, then decides that it really  
> should have invoked the PDF plug-in. It then just 'pulls the plug' on  
> that request-response pair and passes control to the plug-in, which  
> has to start again. This may explain some of the broken connections."
>
> i had this problem in a customer project, and when i debugged it with
> http headers, ie would request pdf differently than ff. in my case, i
> was able to so solve the problems by playing with the expiry / cache
> headers that get sent along (in the sitemap). sorry i do not recall all
> the details, maybe it was this:
>
> http://www.planetpdf.com/forumarchive/55559.asp

Well I was able to do a quick test using a default setup of Tomcat and  
the Acrobat plug-in loads the page just fine in IE/Win.  So it's  
definitely down to some setup in Jetty/Cocoon/Lenya that's causing the  
problem.  Gregor, how does one set these headers in the sitemap?  And  
do you mean the publication-sitemap.xmap in each pub or the overall  
sitemap?  Did you create a pipeline that made this work for all PDF  
files?:

<map:pipeline>
   <map:match pattern="**/*.pdf">
     ... stuff in here ...
   </map:match>
</map:pipeline>

Any help on this one is hugely appreciated!!!  :)

Jon


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