Generating PDF, error with IE and HTTPS

Question

I am streaming a PDF to the browser in ASP.NET 2.0. This works in all browsers over HTTP and all browsers except IE over HTTPS. As far as I know, this used to work (o

Answer 1

We have faced a similar problem long time back - what we did was we (this is Java EE). In the web application config we add

    PDF
    application/octet-stream

This will make any pdf coming from your web application to be downloaded instead of the browser trying to render.

EDIT: looks like you are streaming it. In that case you will use a mime-type as application/octet-stream in your code and not in the config. So here instead of

Response.ContentType = "application/pdf"

you will use

Response.ContentType = "application/octet-stream"