“name” web pdf for better default save filename in Acrobat?

Question

My app generates PDFs for user consumption. The \"Content-Disposition\" http header is set as mentioned here. This is set to \"inline; filename=foo.pdf\", which should be

Answer 1

If you use asp.net, you can control pdf filename through page (url) file name. As other users wrote, Acrobat is a bit s... when it choose the pdf file name when you press "save" button: it takes the page name, removes the extension and add ".pdf". So /foo/bar/GetMyPdf.aspx gives GetMyPdf.pdf.

The only solution I found is to manage "dynamic" page names through an asp.net handler:

• create a class that implements IHttpHandler
• map an handler in web.config bounded to the class

Mapping1: all pages have a common radix (MyDocument_):

Mapping2: completely free file name (need a folder in path):

Some tips here (the pdf is dynamically created using iTextSharp):
http://fhtino.blogspot.com/2006/11/how-to-show-or-download-pdf-file-from.html