Does IE still hand over a PDF request to the acrobat plugin?

Question

Hi,

I need to redirect requests for PDFs to an html page that shows the requested pdf in a frame/iframe

My fear is that some browsers (at least IE used to do this) will hand over the request to Acrobat reader. I can imagine that Acrobat will not be too happy with an html page instead of application/pdf

Thanks for any information you might have on this. I will have access to a server where I can serve the html when a pdf is requested in the near future, but perhaps someone can already save me the trouble

Michel

Answer 1

If your reponse is 200 OK and you have a Content-Type: application/pdf then the display for the page, frame or iframe will get handed over to the PDF plugin.

Otherwise, e.g. if you do a redirect, then IE will handle the redirect.