I serve the PDF documents on the fly with perl program, from webserver. On Macintosh, since it sees .pl file rather than .pdf, but gets the header for PDF in the file, it tries to open the default viewer for PDF rather than Adobe Acrobat.

How I can send appropriate header so that it can open PDF with Adobe Acrobat? If user associate the extension .pl with Acrobat, it works fine. I like to get Perl side solution to avoid this route.

Thanks. Update: (after 10 Minutes) Here is my origianl code: 

sub display_pdf {
    my $file = shift;
    print "Content-Type: application/pdf\n\n"; 
    open(IN, "$file") || die "cannot open $file";
    binmode(IN);
    while(<IN>){        print;    }
    close(IN);
}

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It works fine with PC without any problem.

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