sendRedirect to PDF - repeats 3 times?

[Dave Frankson]

Hello all, I am experiencing a strange error, and I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction. Using Tomcat 3.2.1 or the latest 3.3, I have a simple servlet that has two lines of code in its doGet method which forwards a request to a pdf: System.out.println("Forwarding to the PDF..."); response.sendRedirect("http://localhost:8080/campus/pdf/iep.pdf"); When I use IE 5.0 (version 5.00.2920.0000) and hit the servlet with a GET request, the servlet executes three times and then fails to redirect to the pdf. The weird thing is this doesnt happen in IE 5.5 and it doesnt happen in Netscape.  I need to get this fixed, and I was hoping someone could point me at the code I need to work with. Thanks, Dave Frankson