Showing pdf files in jsp giving error

[Raj Puri]

I am usinhg JSP to show pdf or word files in IE browser. The files are stored as Blob in Oracle database. The following code should show the file when I run JSP, but it shows all garbage along with text of pdf file. I tried the same with another file that is stored as word after changing content type to application/windoc that also does not work. What am I doing wrong here? I did verify that file was right as I laoded them using Oracle utility.


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BLOB b = ((OracleResultSet)rset).getBLOB (1);

byte[] ba = b.getBytes(1, (int)b.length());
response.setContentType("application/pdf");

OutputStream os = response.getOutputStream();
os.write(ba);
os.close();
b.close();

[Bear Bibeault]

This is why you should never use a JSP to do a Servlets job. And please don't ask what is essentailly the same question more than once. Please continue any discussion in the original topic.
[ May 20, 2005: Message edited by: Bear Bibeault ]