Streaming pdf with URLLib

[Aahz]

In article <04eacd56-5293-4553-bdb3-ad2e8266c6b0 at z7g2000vbh.googlegroups.com>,
Scooter  <slbentley at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>#!/usr/bin/python
>
>import urllib
>
>u = urllib.urlopen('https://myinternal.server/pdfs/pdfstreamer.aspx')
>print 'Content-type: application/pdf\n\n'
># print 'Content-type: application/x-msdownload; name=\"FileName\"\n
>\n'
># print 'Content-Dispostion: attachment; filename=\"FileName\"\r\n\n'
>
>pdfdoc = u.read()
>print pdfdoc
>
>Hitting my pdfstreamer.aspx app directly through a browser renders a
>pdf just fine. So now I'm attempting to use this python app on an
>external webserver, access it as a cgi, to pull the pdf, and then re-
>render it, but at that point it just shows me the raw pdf in
>the browser.

What application type does the browser report?
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