Problem Related to Pdf In IE Browser

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i am opening .pdf document inside a IE browser window.

When i tried to close the browser using popup.close on logout

button .It is giving me permission denied error.

It works just fine when I change the link to Google, but when I

make the change back to the pdf document it just giving me
error in IE.

JavaScript

function js_ClosePopUps() {
    if (popups.length == 0) return;
    try
    {
        for (i = 0; i < popups.length; i++) {
            popups[i].close();
        }
    }
    catch(ex)
    {
        alert(popups.name);
        alert('An error has occurred: '+ex.message)
    }
}

This is the code which i am using for closing the popup window in IE.

Please resolve this problem.

Posted 7-Jun-13 2:28am

Member 8533630

Updated 7-Jun-13 2:48am

Prasad Khandekar

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Prasad Khandekar 7-Jun-13 8:49am

Can you provide more details on popups. is this an array which you are populating using value returned by window.open?

Member 8533630 7-Jun-13 9:03am

yes popups is using as an array.
var popups = new Array();
Apart from this,I am using following code for opening the pop up window

function PopupCenter(pageURL, title,w,h){ var left = (screen.width/2)-(w/2);

var top = (screen.height/2)-(h/2);

var targetWin = window.open (pageURL, title, 'toolbar=no, location=no, directories=no, status=no, menubar=no, scrollbars=yes, resizable=yes, copyhistory=no, width='+w+', height='+h+', top='+top+', left='+left);

popups.push(targetWin);}

Here I am using popups.push for reference of open window. which get reference of all open window.
Now in js_closePopups method - popups array will calculate the number of opening windows. and will close all the windows one by one using popups[i].close();

But the browser in which pdf report is opening not consider it as a IE browser and giving permission denied error.

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2013-06-07T04:34:00

Solution 1

First of all, you should not assume that the browser is IE, and you should not assume that the client's browser supports PDF. Despite of the wide use of PDF files on the Web, this is not a part of any W3 standards and not supported on all browsers and all platforms. (I, for example, exterminated anything related to Adobe Acrobat from all my Windows systems, don't have PDF support in any of the browsers I use, and now feel much better.)

Check up you file system permission on the object in question, but also remember that HTTP server executes Web application in sandboxed environment allowing the access only to those server-side host's file system objects under the root directory of your site.

—SA

Posted 7-Jun-13 4:34am

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

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Member 8533630 10-Jun-13 1:00am

Still my problem is not solved by this content.Please give me relevant input to solve this issue.Is there any alternate of this problem.
Kindly solve my problem.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 10-Jun-13 9:18am

If the problem is addressed incorrectly, it cannot be solved. Your real solution should be recognition of this incorrectness. Do you see the point?
—SA

Member 8533630 11-Jun-13 1:39am

Yes I have seen this point. I am new in the development. please elaborate this point so that i can use it in my application.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 11-Jun-13 6:54am

Which point? What's unclear or what help do you need?
—SA

Member 8533630 11-Jun-13 7:42am

Which file system permission i have to check in the application.
Main thing i have to close the pop up browser in which pdf file is opening(this is the requirement to close all application popup after logout from an application)
Can u plz tell me is any other way to open a pdf file .so that if i logout from the application,then pop up should always be closed.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 11-Jun-13 7:52am

Most likely, this is not permission. The file path must be withing the top directory associated with your site.
Use Server.MapPath, to obtain the path name from relative URL:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.httpserverutility.mappath.aspx
—SA

Member 8533630 12-Jun-13 8:38am

When i use server.mapath to open a pdf report its giving me error in firefox -"Firefox doesn't know how to open this address, because the protocol (e) isn't associated with any program." and in IE not opening. I have used following code:
string strdata = Server.MapPath("../PDFReports/" + status);
HttpContext.Current.Response.Redirect(strdata);

If i used this path in window explorer then its working fine.
But if i open this report by following code . Report is opening

HttpContext.Current.Response.Redirect("../PDFReports/" + status);

Please give any reply regarding this

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 12-Jun-13 14:44pm

Try Server.MapPath(string.Format"~/and-so-on/PDFReports/{0}", status); with full path from the root... See the exact resulting path under debugger on in log.
—SA