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Subject:
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Load a pdf when the URL is typed?
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Posted By:
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morpheus
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Post Date:
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11/13/2003 2:52:54 PM
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When a user types my URL the main page loads, which is fine. But what I want to do is type www.mysite.com/otherpage and load a PDF file into the browser(without actually type file.pdf after the URL) and by pass the page I have now with the link to the PDF on it. So the secondary page never loads. Also can the code do a check to see if the user has Acrobat reader and if not can it direct them to adobe.com. Any help on this matter would be awesome.
Thanks a lot!!!!
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Reply By:
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Yehuda
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Reply Date:
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11/13/2003 2:59:12 PM
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Try
<%
Response.Redirect "http://www.something.com/some.pdf"
'where http://www.something.com/some.pdf is the path to your pdf
%>
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Reply By:
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morpheus
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Reply Date:
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11/13/2003 3:11:04 PM
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Thanks for the quick response, but when I use your code it comes up and says page cannot be displayed. But it's looking for
http://www.something.com/some.pdfhttp://www.something.com/some.pdf
why is it adding the url to the url. What page do I use the Redirect on? maybe I am doing something wrong
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Reply By:
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morpheus
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Reply Date:
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11/13/2003 3:16:21 PM
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Okay sorry it works fine, thanks a lot!! :-)
Just one more thing what happens if the user dose not have acrobat reader???
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Reply By:
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Yehuda
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Reply Date:
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11/13/2003 3:19:51 PM
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I would guess they either get gibberish or an error. I am not sure.
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Reply By:
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morpheus
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Reply Date:
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11/13/2003 3:31:56 PM
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Sorry the keep bothering you, but how do I make it load in another window, I tried the target="_blank" but that didn't seem to work.
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Reply By:
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planoie
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Reply Date:
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11/13/2003 3:32:02 PM
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If they don't have an application to handle a file format, they will get the "Download file..." dialog box.
Peter
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Work smarter, not harder.
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Reply By:
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Yehuda
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Reply Date:
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11/13/2003 3:35:58 PM
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Try
<SCRIPT>
Window.open("http://www.something.com/some.pdf")
<SCRIPT>
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Reply By:
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morpheus
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Reply Date:
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11/13/2003 3:43:56 PM
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Thanks for your help 
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