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How to change the title of a browser page which a servlet streamed a PDF to?

Answer 1

A:

You could display the PDF in an iframe.
Something like this:

<html>
  <head>
      <title>Here is the amazing PDF</title>
      <style type="text/css">
       html, body, div, iframe { margin:0; padding:0; height:100%; }
       iframe { display:block; width:100%; border:none; }
      </style>
  </head>
  <body>
    <iframe width="100%" length="100%" src="myApp/FetchPDFServlet?id=123"/>
  </body>
</html>

So instead of linking to a pdf document using myApp/FetchPDFServlet?id=123, you would link to something that returns the above html. For example, a jsp page: myApp/ShowPDF.jsp?id=123&title=Here%20is%20the%20amazing%20PDF

Francois Gravel 2009-06-29 16:30:11

Answer 2

+2 A:

Add this header to your HttpServletResponse:

response.setHeader("Content-Disposition","inline; filename=Here is the Amazing PDF");

I believe the browser will pick it up and use it as the title of the window.

Gandalf 2009-06-29 19:44:50

Answer 3

A:

I tried using first solution be still doesn't pick up the title. Please help:

 BufferedOutputStream bos = null;
 try {
  ServletOutputStream out = response.getOutputStream();
  response.setContentType(mineType+";charset=UTF-8");

  response.setHeader("Pragma", "public");
  response.setDateHeader("Expires", 0);
  response.setHeader("Cache-Control","must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0");
  response.setHeader("Cache-Control","public");
  response.setHeader("Content-Description","File Transfer");
  response.setHeader("Content-Disposition","inline; filename=My title");

  bos = new BufferedOutputStream(out);
  bos.write(xfdl);
 }
 catch (Exception e) {
  throw e;
 }
 finally {
  if (bos != null) {
   bos.flush();
   bos.close();
  }
 }

Richard Huang 2009-11-19 21:41:25

Include filename as pathinfo in URL or use a better webbrowser ;)

BalusC 2009-11-19 22:39:52

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