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Article ID: 305153 - Last Review: March 29, 2007 - Revision: 5.4
Internet Explorer Opens a Blank Page with a Placeholder Icon Instead of a .pdf File in Adobe Acrobat Reader
This article was previously published under Q305153
Internet Explorer may display a blank page with a
placeholder icon instead of displaying a Portable Document Format (.pdf) file
with Adobe Acrobat Reader.
This behavior occurs because the uniform resource
identifier (URI) to the .pdf file does not end in ".pdf" (for example, the file
is opened through script or the file is dynamically generated), and the
content-type header (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions [MIME] type) that is
returned by the server is "unknown/unknown" or no content-length header was
returned. Note that previous versions of Internet Explorer that support
Netscape-style plug-ins may open the .pdf file without a content-type header.
To work around this behavior, right-click the link to the
.pdf file, and then click
Save Target As to save the file on
your computer. After you do this, you can double-click the locally saved .pdf
file to open it in Adobe Acrobat Reader.
To resolve this behavior,
contact the Web site author or administrator. Web site authors or
administrators can resolve this problem if they configure their Web servers to
send both a content-type header (MIME type) of "application/pdf" for .pdf files
and an appropriate content-length header. (For information on doing this,
consult the documentation for the Web server that is in use.)
To add
or modify MIME types on Microsoft Internet Information Services 4.0 or 5.0,
please see the following Microsoft Web site:
For information on HTTP headers, see the following Microsoft Web
site:
This behavior is by design.
For additional information
about this behavior, click the article number below to view the article in the
Microsoft Knowledge Base:
303401Â
(http://kbalertz.com/Feedback.aspx?kbNumber=303401/EN-US/
)
Netscape-Style Plugins No Longer Work After Upgrading Internet Explorer
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