Content Type when serving a file in a generic handler

Question

I\'m busy writing a handler to serve various documents for download or presentation in web forms pages. The documents range from various image formats, to PDF, to MS Office

Answer 1

application/octet-stream is fine for file downloading, but if you want the browser to interact with the file, you might want to change the content type.

For example, the mime-type for downloading a PDF file is application/octet-stream, while application/pdf will tell the browser to open the file in the browser itself.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_media_type