Posted by Erwin Moller on 01/30/07 16:46

Jørn Dahl-Stamnes wrote:

> Erwin Moller wrote:
>> Hi again,
>>
>> Well that is strange indeed. I blindly assumed the code was failing on
>> all
>> uploads, but you claim it only fails on pdf. Sorry, my bad. :-)
>
> Or I did not explain my self good enough...
>
>> Summarizing:
>> 1) Your upload script works fine for all files except (some) pdf.
>
> Yes, and make it ONE pdf file.
>
>> 2) In your log you can see the call to the upload-script for all
>> succesfull uploads, but NOT when uploading this pdf. You find NO record
>> in apachelogs at all.
>
> That is right. No entry in the log that indicate that the upload script
> has been called when I get the error message.
>
> With an older version of Firefox unde FC4 I get "Alert: Document contain
> no data", while I with the latest Firefox under Windows 2000 get a message
> that say "The connection to the server was reset while the page was
> loading". And I get a different message with IE under W2k.
>
>> If this is the situation, my guess would be that apache2 is somehow
>> screwing up before php gets involved.
>>
>> Can you check your apache errorfiles?
>> Anything out of the ordinary?
>
> No errors in the error_log file.
>
> I also tried:
> * Open the original Word document on my W2k machine and save it as pure
> txt * Start word and insert the txt file and do a simple format
> * Save the document to a new filename.
> * On FC4: Convert the new document file in OpenOffice and convert it to
> PDF * Upload the PDF file.
>
> This works OK. But FC4 is not able to view the PDF file.
>
> I also had a friend to convert the first Word document to PDF on a Windows
> platform (since I don't have the proper software under Windows). This one
> also fails, but now I can view the PDF file on FC4 without problems.
>

Hi,

Beats me. :-/
What bothers me most is the fact apache is not logging the call to the
uploadscript.
I think I would focus on that first before worrying about conversions via
word/open office/etc.
I looks like the upload is failing at a very early stage...
Some currupt headers or something that confuses Apache enough to refuse to
log it.
I never have been in that situation before.

Maybe you could repost your problem in an apache newsgroup if noby in here
comes up with ideas.

Good luck.

Regards,
Erwin Moller

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