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I am running into an issue opening a pdf/rtf link in our application. Ideally when the user clicks on the link the 'attachment' it should be rendered in a new tab in the browser. But in IE 10 it only renders gibberish. This is what we used and worked in IE 7 which we have been been using for a while.

<a href="<%=row.fileName%>" target="_blank">My_attachmentpdf</a>

But when I opened some other pdf online in the same IE 10 it worked fine. I was thinking may be I should try to force it to save to disk locally as an alternative. Any thoughts?
PS: The application is j2ee web application and uses struts 1.0.
Thanks.

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    if you see %PDF-1 at the start of the gibberish, then you're not sending out the appropriate mime headers and your pdf is being rendered as text/plain or text/html. Commented Sep 24, 2015 at 21:46
  • so you don't have the right mime headers to tell IE you're sending a PDF, so it's defaulting to plain text. Commented Sep 24, 2015 at 21:50
  • How do I do that in javascript? the row.fileName in the original post gives out \myApp\myPdf1.pdf. Commented Sep 25, 2015 at 13:40
  • there's nothing you can do in JS. it's something you have to fix on the server. Commented Sep 25, 2015 at 15:57
  • @MarcB I think I should try something like this below. But I don't have the ServletResponse object. Is there another option I can try? link Commented Sep 28, 2015 at 16:16
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