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    copied!<p>There are meetings on this website and each meeting has a PDF attached showing the meeting minutes. The next meeting that takes place dynamically collects this attached PDF and allows for a download as the previous minutes. This is all working perfectly, however, when clicking the link for the previous minutes it always opens up a save as box. I was wondering how to get this to just display in the browser (assuming the user has a PDF viewer enabled)?</p> <p>Here is the function from the controller: </p> <pre><code>public function current_pdf($id = null, $pdf = null) { $this-&gt;loadModel('Document'); $document = $this-&gt;Document-&gt;find('list', array( 'fields' =&gt; array('Document.dir', 'Document.url') )); $request_pdf = $this-&gt;Meeting-&gt;read(null, $id); if ($pdf == 'current') { $file = $document[$request_pdf['Meeting']['minutes']]; if (!empty($file)) { header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=" . urlencode($file)); header("Content-Type: application/force-download"); header("Content-Type: application/octet-stream"); header("Content-Type: application/download"); header("Content-Description: File Transfer"); header("Content-Length: " . filesize(WWW_ROOT . 'files/document/url/' . $request_pdf['Meeting']['minutes'] . '/' . $file)); flush(); // this doesn't really matter. $fp = fopen(WWW_ROOT . 'files/document/url/' . $request_pdf['Meeting']['minutes'] . '/' . $file, "r"); while (!feof($fp)) { echo fread($fp, 65536); flush(); // this is essential for large downloads } fclose($fp); //echo WWW_ROOT.'files/document/url/pdf/'.$file; die; //readfile(WWW_ROOT.'files/document/url/pdf/'.$file); exit; } $this-&gt;redirect(array('controller' =&gt; 'meetings', 'action' =&gt; 'view/' . $id)); } else { $file = $request_pdf['Meeting']['current_minutes']; if (!empty($file)) { //echo filesize(WWW_ROOT.'files/document/url/pdf/'.$file); die; /* header('Content-Description: File Transfer'); header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream'); header("Content-Type: application/force-download"); header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=' . urlencode(basename($file))); // header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary'); header('Expires: 0'); header('Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0'); header('Pragma: public'); header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($file)); ob_clean(); flush(); */ header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=" . urlencode($file)); header("Content-Type: application/force-download"); header("Content-Type: application/octet-stream"); header("Content-Type: application/download"); header("Content-Description: File Transfer"); header("Content-Length: " . filesize(WWW_ROOT . 'files/document/url/pdf/' . $file)); flush(); // this doesn't really matter. $fp = fopen(WWW_ROOT . 'files/document/url/pdf/' . $file, "r"); while (!feof($fp)) { echo fread($fp, 65536); flush(); // this is essential for large downloads } fclose($fp); //echo WWW_ROOT.'files/document/url/pdf/'.$file; die; //readfile(WWW_ROOT.'files/document/url/pdf/'.$file); exit; } $this-&gt;redirect(array('controller' =&gt; 'meetings', 'action' =&gt; 'view/' . $id)); } </code></pre> <p>}</p> <p>And here is the link in the view:</p> <p><code>&lt;?php echo $this-&gt;Html-&gt;link(__('Download Previous Minutes'), array('controller' =&gt; 'meetings', 'action' =&gt; 'current_pdf', $download, 'current')); ?&gt;</code></p> <p>I have tried removing the header("Content-Type...") lines of code and changing attachment in <code>header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=" . urlencode($file));</code> to inline. This stopped the save as pop-up but displayed a load of spurious code in the browser instead.</p> <p>Any help would be greatly appreciated as I'm currently very confused.</p>
 

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