I have a 7.1 Mid Tier running IIS with ServletExec. 

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From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
On Behalf Of Hugo Visser
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 9:34 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Opening a PDF from the MidTier


** Right, except that he didn't state "any other browser", but IE :) I'll test 
some stuff here, to see if I can reproduce it. What I meant to say was that the 
mime-type is an important way for compliant browser to know what to do with a 
file. I suspect that something strange is going on. Either the mime-type is 
correct but the client (Firefox) is configured wrong, or the mime-type is 
incorrect confuses the client. 

However, when I put a pdf in my shared folder on a 7.0.1 Mid-Tier, running on 
Tomcat 5.20 it just works. Brian, what's your config?

Hugo


On 11/5/07, Rahul AR User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 

        ** 
        This is very strange situation.......
         
        Hugo.... i appreciate your workaround but I believe this will not work 
becuase as confirmed by Brain, the pdf from any other browser opens directly 
without giving any error except for those from the local AR Server Mid-Tier 
virtual path. 
         
        Brain.... can you please try opening any other extension file, like 
DOC, XLS, etc. Maybe this might lead us somewhere.
         
        Awaiting some positive results for further investigation
         

         
        On 11/3/07, Hugo Visser <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: 

                ** Again, you should verify that the mime-type that is sent is 
the correct one. One option would be to install the firebug extension to see 
what is being sent to the browser. If the mime-type is incorrect (for example 
text/plain), Firefox will just open it as text, like most other browsers. "IE 
works" because it sees ".pdf" and knows how top open pdf on your PC, no matter 
what mime-type your web browser is sending. 
                
                
                It could be that the mime-type config must be done at some 
other place, like your web server.
                
                Hugo 
                
                
                
                On 11/2/07, Sokol, Brian < [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL 
PROTECTED]> > wrote: 

                        Not true. If I open the file directly from Firefox 
(File, Open File) it works fine. If I open a pdf in firefox from another web 
site it works ok.  

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                        From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) 
[mailto:[email protected] ] On Behalf Of Rahul AR User
                        Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 11:35 AM 
                        
                        To: [email protected]
                        Subject: Re: Opening a PDF from the MidTier 
                        

                         
                        
                        ** 
                        Hi Brain,
                         
                        Can u confrim whether you are opening the URL from the 
server machine or have you tried opening the same from other systems in the 
network also?
                         
                        It seems that hsi is a localised problem with FireFox 
application and not related to ARS. I could draw thie conclusion from your 
comment that when you directly open the PDF from FireFox, it gives an error.

                         
                        On 11/2/07, Sokol, Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: 

                                Thanks Carey,
                                
                                I just tried it but get the same exact results. 
The PDF in Firefox looks like this: 
                                
                                0000005086 00000 n 0000005334 00000 n 
0000005561 00000 n 0000008230 00000 n 0000008328 00000 n 0000011033 00000 n 
0000018108 00000 n 0000018337 00000 n 0000018521 00000 n 0000000796 00000 n 
trailer 
<<7FAF49E0F79CE0D2C017FF7C94E3C35F><582EF4B25F50364FB99AF1931835654A>]>> 
startxref 0 %%EOF 56 0 obj<>stream x b```a`` a`e`P c g@ ~  + sL`bh T  韷? AD   
 05<       tY 5/q  )^ a $  M : /    虳gdy ``` TRj   `@     0      @ q    @Z    
Ê• x ~h1  jjv`u     X&%`  !    4 ;   7  F .    P J30 R   [EMAIL PROTECTED]     
?~ iF b  0   3  endstream endobj 33 0 obj<> endobj 34 0 obj<> endobj 35 0 
obj<<>/ColorSpace<>/Font<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text/ImageC/ImageI]/ExtGState<>>> 
endobj 36 0 obj<> endobj 37 0 obj[/ICCBased 49 0 R] endobj 38 0 obj[/Indexed 37 
0 R 15 50 0 R] endobj 39 0 obj<> endobj 40 0 obj<> endobj 41 0 obj<>stream H  W 
n F } W # T ./"  -R'm ^ 6* ` V     K        H ļ 왙sά_  Q } | t^. >HXn   4   
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                                Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 11:12 AM 
                                To: [email protected] 
                                Subject: Re: Opening a PDF from the MidTier
                                
                                Brian,
                                
                                I use the Active link action 
PERFORM-ACTION-OPEN-URL and have not noticed any problems launching a PDF (also 
hosted on our Mid-Tier 
                                server) from a button. Maybe you can use a 
button instead of a Text object? 
                                
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