Streaming the PDF document directly to the browser

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   Greetings,
As the subject says, I found the FAQ for "Streaming the PDF document directly to the browser" and trying to get this to work in C#/ASP. The code works but when I click on the button to generate the PDF it brings up a window to save the PDF file instead of streaming the document directly to the browser. This is what I am using.

qp.CompressContent();
Response.ContentType = "application/pdf";
Response.AddHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachment; filename=test.pdf");
Response.BinaryWrite(qp.SaveToVariant());
Response.End();

I want this to stream the PDF to the browser. If anyone could help me out I would greatly appreciate it.

Halv

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Halv Members Profile Find Members Posts Beginner Joined: 17 Sep 12 Status: Offline Points: 9	Post Options Post Reply Quote Halv Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Streaming the PDF document directly to the browser Posted: 20 Sep 12 at 10:50PM
	Greetings, As the subject says, I found the FAQ for "Streaming the PDF document directly to the browser" and trying to get this to work in C#/ASP. The code works but when I click on the button to generate the PDF it brings up a window to save the PDF file instead of streaming the document directly to the browser. This is what I am using. qp.CompressContent(); Response.ContentType = "application/pdf"; Response.AddHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachment; filename=test.pdf"); Response.BinaryWrite(qp.SaveToVariant()); Response.End(); I want this to stream the PDF to the browser. If anyone could help me out I would greatly appreciate it. Halv

AndrewC Members Profile Find Members Posts Moderator Group Joined: 08 Dec 10 Location: Geelong, Aust Status: Offline Points: 841	Post Options Post Reply Quote AndrewC Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 21 Sep 12 at 3:08AM
	I assume you are using the ActiveX version of Quick PDF Library. According to this your approach is correct.. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1907758/displaying-a-pdf-document-in-asp-net-page I have no experience with ASP.net but they are writing their data to Reponse.OutputStream ? Your code looks like it should work also. Andrew. Edited by AndrewC - 25 Sep 12 at 2:26AM

samb Members Profile Find Members Posts Beginner Joined: 09 Feb 11 Status: Offline Points: 8	Post Options Post Reply Quote samb Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 24 Sep 12 at 5:46PM
	I believe the important part is changing attachment to inline in Content-Disposition. Not sure if all the flushing and clearing is required, but this is what I have used in the past and it seems to work ok. Response.Clear(); Response.ClearHeaders(); Response.ClearContent(); Response.Buffer = true; Response.ContentType = "application/pdf"; Response.AddHeader("Content-Disposition", "inline;filename=" + fileName); Response.AddHeader("Content-Length", fileContents.Length.ToString()); Response.Flush(); Response.BinaryWrite(fileContents); Edited by samb - 24 Sep 12 at 5:50PM

Halv Members Profile Find Members Posts Beginner Joined: 17 Sep 12 Status: Offline Points: 9	Post Options Post Reply Quote Halv Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 25 Sep 12 at 1:39AM
	Greetings, Thanks samb! Your line of code got it working the way I wanted so now the PDF file shows up on the browser instead of prompting to save. Regards, Halv