JSF streamed download on android device returns .htm file

Question

I\'m currently facing a weird problem in my webpage on android devices.

What I want to do is to allow a user to download a pdf-file to his mobile device. Therefore I pro

Answer 1

had the same problem. I used the example code from primefaces.org for downloading a pdf with mobile devices. It was working fine "on my machine" but not on a iPad Safari or Android browsers. Problem was the content type in the Example-Controller provided in the showcase:

file = new DefaultStreamedContent(stream, "image/jpg", "some.pdf");

Which works only for images. Well, brain on mode:

file = new DefaultStreamedContent(stream, "application/pdf", "some.pdf"); 

and everything works fine now.