Hello,
I have a question about dynamically generating PDF documents within JSF. I am using iText Java PDF libraries to generate the PDF in a separate servlet - how ever when its time to display the bytes written to the servlet output stream, IE7 does not show up any thing at all.

I was asked to add a FacesContext.responseComplete statement because i was trying to render a non JSF component page. But that does not seem to help.

When i try the same application on FireFox, the binary contents of the PDF get displayed - even though i am setting the content type to application/pdf on the response object.

Here's the servlet code

public void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
throws ServletException, IOException {
log.info("Inside doPost....");
viewToFromReportPDF(request, response);
}


public void viewToFromReportPDF(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws IOException{
log.info("Inside PDFUtilServlet.......");
String reportID = (String)request.getParameter("reportID");
log.info("ReportID ==>"+reportID);
response = configureResponse(response);
Document document = new Document();
ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();

try{
PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.getInstance(document, baos);
log.info("Abt to create PDF of report ID "+reportID);
document.open();
document.add(new Paragraph(reportID));
document.close();
}catch(DocumentException de) {
log.debug(de.getMessage());
}
response.setContentLength(baos.size());
ServletOutputStream out = response.getOutputStream();
out.write(baos.toByteArray());
}


private HttpServletResponse configureResponse(HttpServletResponse response) {

response.setHeader("Expires", "0");
response.setHeader("Cache-Control", "max-age=60");
response.setHeader("Accept-Ranges", "bytes");
response.setHeader("Connection","close");
response.setContentType("application/pdf");
return response;
}


Is there some thing that i am missing here ? I am using IE7 and JSF RichFaces 3.1.4 running against Tomcat 6.0.16

Thanks,
NS