Question

When user requests to download a document, I’m writing out a PDF file to HttpResponse using HttpResponse.OutputStream.Write method. It works in every browser except Firefox(3.5.8). In Firefox it sometimes displays the file and sometimes it displays the actual byte stream. When it displays a byte stream, http response is never finished. I see ‘transferring data’ status and the byte stream ends with EOF. After some time, I get ‘connection was reset’ window.

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Here is response header:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Cache-Control: no-cache
Pragma: no-cache
Content-Length: 103185
Content-Type: application/pdf
Expires: -1
Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.0
X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727
Content-Description: stuff.pdf
Content-Disposition: inline;filename="stuff.pdf"
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Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:15:38 GMT

Answer 1

Looks like it wasn’t finishing up request. Solution is to put Response.End() at the end.