Displaying pdf in jsp

Question

I have written a jsp page to display contents of pdf, but end up with ascii codes in jsp. I want to display the contents of pdf in jsp. Whats the part that I have missed. Wh

Answer 1

I could see multiple problems:

• There are extra html tags at the top and bottom of your JSP. You do not want them there - you only want to have the pdf contents in your response output.
• The code sets content type is multiple times. That is probably not the root cause, however make sure you do it only once (set it to application/pdf)

• In the while loop, data are first written to the response output stream, then a toString() is written to the out (which is actually a Writer instance opened on the response output stream - the one in outs). Only use the response stream in the loop, as

  while ((c = in.read(buf, 0, buf.length)) > 0) { outs.write(buf, 0, c);
}