download a PDF rather than opening it

[mikebgx]

Hi Folks,

My app produces a PDF report which I can show to the user by the code below, it opens in Preview ie the app that is registered to handle PDF files.  But I'd also like to allow the user to just save it to disk without viewing it, any ideas please?

Regards,

Mike Burton

byte[] pdf= rpt.toPdf();        // Produce PDF into our byte array
// Now render PDF bytes to browser...
HttpServletResponse response = (HttpServletResponse) facesContext.getExternalContext().getResponse();
OutputStream os = response.getOutputStream();
response.setContentType("application/pdf");
response.setContentLength(pdf.length);
response.setHeader("Content-disposition", "attachment; filename=\""+ rpt.getOutName()+ ".pdf\"");
os.write(pdf);
os.flush();
os.close();
facesContext.responseComplete();

[mikebgx]

Sorry, code didnt format well, should read:

byte[] pdf= rpt.toPdf();        // Produce PDF into our byte array
// Now render PDF bytes to browser...
HttpServletResponse response = (HttpServletResponse) facesContext.getExternalContext().getResponse();
OutputStream os = response.getOutputStream();
response.setContentType("application/pdf");
response.setContentLength(pdf.length);
response.setHeader("Content-disposition", "attachment; filename=\""+ rpt.getOutName()+ ".pdf\"");
os.write(pdf);
os.flush();
os.close();
facesContext.responseComplete();

[houda]

Hi , would please write all the code .