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copied!<p>JSP is the wrong tool for the job of serving a file download. JSP is designed as a view technology with the intent to easily produce HTML output with taglibs and EL. Basically, with your JSP approach, your PDF file is cluttered with <code><!DOCTYPE></code>, <code><html></code> etc tags and therefore corrupted and not recognizable as a valid PDF file. This is by the way one of the reasons why <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3177733/how-to-avoid-java-code-in-jsp-files/3180202#3180202">using <em>scriptlets</em> is a bad practice</a>. It has namely completely confused you as to how stuff is supposed to work. In this particular case, that is using a normal Java class for the file download job.</p> <p>You should be using a <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/tags/servlets/info">servlet</a> instead. Here's a kickoff example, assuming that Servlet 3.0 and Java 7 is available:</p> <pre class="lang-java prettyprint-override"><code>@WebServlet("/foo.pdf") public class PdfServlet extends HttpServlet { protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException { File file = new File("/absolute/path/to/foo.pdf"); response.setHeader("Content-Type", getServletContext().getMimeType(file.getName())); response.setHeader("Content-Length", String.valueOf(file.length())); response.setHeader("Content-Disposition", "inline; filename=\"foo.pdf\""); Files.copy(file.toPath(), response.getOutputStream()); } } </code></pre> <p><em>(if Servlet 3.0 is not available, then map it in <code>web.xml</code> <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/tags/servlets/info">the usual way</a>, if Java 7 is not available, then use a read/write loop <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10142409/write-an-inputstream-to-an-httpservletresponse/10142601#10142601">the usual way</a>)</em></p> <p>Just copypaste this class in its entirety into your project and open the desired PDF file by <code>/contextpath/Saba_PhBill.pdf</code> instead of <code>/contextpath/youroriginal.jsp</code> (after having organized it in a package and autocompleted the necessary imports in the class, of course). </p> <p>E.g. as follows in a JSP where you'd like to show the PDF inline:</p> <pre class="lang-html prettyprint-override"><code><object data="${pageContext.request.contextPath}/Saba_PhBill.pdf" type="application/pdf" width="500" height="300"> <a href="${pageContext.request.contextPath}/Saba_PhBill.pdf">Download file.pdf</a> </object> </code></pre> <p><em>(the <code><a></code> link is meant as graceful degradation when the browser being used doesn't support inlining <code>application/pdf</code> content in a HTML document, i.e. when it doesn't have Adobe Reader plugin installed)</em></p> <h3>See also:</h3> <ul> <li><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1812244/simplest-way-to-serve-static-data-from-outside-the-application-server-in-a-java">Simplest way to serve static data from outside the application server in a Java web application</a></li> <li><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/132052/servlet-for-serving-static-content/29991447#29991447">Abstract template for a static resource servlet supporting ETags, caching, etc</a></li> </ul>

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