I had this problem also. After days of trials, support calls and failed web searches, I guessed at a solution. I've documented this in my blog: http://www.keithrowland.com/archives/2003_12.html#000037 But essentially, change the mime type in /etc/mime.types for PDF from: application/pdf to application/x-pdf Adam Naumowicz wrote:
I'm having problems with configuring apache2 under SuSE 9.0 to work correctly with some web browsers (including MSIE 6.0) when trying to retrieve .pdf files. Apparently, the mime-type definition application/pdf used by apache's module differs from the one used by the browser - in the apache's log file I can see that the server responds with code 206 (why partal download?) and the browser complains that the file doesn't start with a valid .pdf magic string, i.e. %PDF-.
Does anyone know how to solve the problem?