showing pdf in Fire fox giving problem

[S Majumder]

Hi every body ,
I have a problem related to PDF showing the browser , It is working fine in the IE , but in the FF it is not showing .

Here is my Backing bean code for fetching the PDF .

The main backing bean name is myBean.

 


	public void showPDF() throws IOException 
 	{
		
		
	     BufferedInputStream input = null;
	     BufferedOutputStream output = null;
	        
	     InputStream inputStream =null; 
	     
	   
	     FacesContext facesContext = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance();
	     ExternalContext externalContext = facesContext.getExternalContext();
	     HttpServletResponse response = (HttpServletResponse) externalContext.getResponse();
		
		try 
        {
        	
		//It is a simple POJO , it will return the pdf content
                PDF  pdf =  new PDF();
        	 
        	inputStream = pdf.getPDFContent();
        	 
        	
          
            input = new BufferedInputStream(inputStream, DEFAULT_BUFFER_SIZE);

            
            response.reset();
            response.setContentType("application/pdf");
            response.setHeader("Content-disposition", "inline; filename=\"" + pdf.getFileName() + "\"");
            output = new BufferedOutputStream(response.getOutputStream(), DEFAULT_BUFFER_SIZE);

           
            byte[] buffer = new byte[DEFAULT_BUFFER_SIZE];
            int length;
            while ((length = input.read(buffer)) > 0) 
            {
                output.write(buffer, 0, length);
            }

           
            output.flush();
        }catch(Exception ex)
        {
        	ex.printStackTrace();
        }
        
        finally {
          
           output.close(); 
           input.close(); 
        }

         facesContext.responseComplete();
    }

Here is my view JSF

 
<h:commandLink  value="Show PDF" action="#{myBean.showPDF}" target="_blank" />

Thanks & regards,
S

[Sagar Rohankar]

Its a well known problem with FF, the browser gets hang while opening the pdf files:
Firefox PDF problem

[Annu Vinayak]

Try replacing the h:commandLink with h:commandButton. I was having problems with opening Excel document in Firefox with h:commandLink. It worked after I changed it to h:commandButton. If it works you can change the style of the button to make it look like a link!

[S Majumder]

Thanks for your reply .

I have used the h:commandButton & it is woking fine .Could you give me some hint how could I change the h:commandButton to a link ?


regards,
S

[Annu Vinayak]

Put styleClass="linkStyle" in the tag and add

.linkStyle {
cursor: pointer;
}

to your styleclass.