IE (HTTPS): generating pdf from php file doesn't work

Question

Here is my issue. I am trying to call a page: foo.php?docID=bar and return a PDF to the screen which is stored as a BLOB in the DB.

Here is the portion of my code w

Answer 1

Try this:

 header("Content-Type: application/pdf");
 header("Content-Disposition: inline; filename=foo.pdf");
 header("Accept-Ranges: bytes");
 header("Content-Length: $len");
 header("Expires: 0");
 header("Cache-Control: private");

Also, if you are using sessions, you can try setting

session_cache_limiter("none");

or

session_cache_limiter("private");

Answer 2

This was the only header I needed to change:

header("Pragma: public");

Answer 3

if ( USR_BROWSER_AGENT == 'IE' ) {
    header( 'Content-Disposition: inline; filename="' . $name . '"');
    header( 'Expires: 0' );
    header( 'Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0' );
    header( 'Pragma: public' );
} else {
    header( 'Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="' . $name . '"' );
    header( 'Expires: 0' );
    header( 'Pragma: no-cache' );
}

Answer 4

I figured out what the issue was. It's an IE bug dealing with IE, HTTPS and addons. (See here)

It was a caching issue. When I set:

  header("Cache-Control:  max-age=1");
  header("Pragma: public");

(see here), the PDF was in cache long enough for the adobe reader add-on to grab it.

Answer 5

I had this issue too, i used the following which seems to work fine

header("Content-type: application/pdf");
header("Content-Length: $length");
header("Content-Disposition: inline; filename='$filename'");

Answer 6

I think you need to add more headers.

header("Content-Type: application/force-download");
header("Content-Type: application/octet-stream");
header("Content-Type: application/download");
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=THEFILENAME.pdf;");
header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");
header("Content-Length: " . strlen($results[1]));