IE will not display a pdf file

[wowdezign]

I have code that I inherited from another developer. The code is supposed to take a file with a generic extension (in this case .dat) and display it as a pdf or xls or whatever.

 

Every browser I have tried displays this correctly except one... care to guess which one doesn't seem to respect the mime type?

 

Well, just for those that haven't already figured it out, it's IE.

 

This code pulls the file with the .dat extension and tells IE what it is via the response header. Does anyone know of a way to force this issue?

[dragon_sa]

You could try this at the top of your page, this resolved the issue for me generating xls files

 

// IE fix to prevent crash load for xls spread sheet

if(strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], 'MSIE')) {

session_cache_limiter("public");

}

// Convert page to xls document

header("Content-Type: application/vnd.ms-excel");

header("Expires: 0");

header("Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0");

header("content-disposition: attachment;filename=file.xls");