Question

I’m saving a pdf file with the following part of the code:

response.setContentType("application/pdf"); 
    response.setHeader("Content-disposition", 
        "inline; filename="+pd.getName()+"_"+version+".pdf") ; 
    response.setContentLength(baosPDF.size()); 
    java.io.OutputStream os;
    os = response.getOutputStream();
    baosPDF.writeTo(os); 

When I right click on save the file in my page, in Chrome and Firefox it is named correctly by default:

"NameOfPd_VersionNumber.pdf"

But only in Internet Explorer 8 is named:

"printPDFAction.pdf"

where printPDFAction is the name of the action which creates the pdf.

How can I solve that? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Use the following header:

Content-disposition: attachment; filename="xxx.pdf"

also for IE, use these headers (IE sometimes has problems opening files which it saved a moment ago):

Cache-Control: cache, must-revalidate
Pragma: public