Posted by Steve on 01/10/08 18:27

"Willem Bogaerts" <w.bogaerts@kratz.maardanzonderditstuk.nl> wrote in
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>> ... i added in some ssl last
>> night so that pages/scripts that set an $enableSecurity flag dynamically
>> change from http to https (avoids mixed security messages for things like
>> resource links, etc.). now, everything continues to work fine with the
>> exception of the pdf reports. there are no errors reported but no report
>> data is displayed.
>
> Let me guess: you are using Internet Explorer. Internet Explorer has a
> serious bug that causes it not to store anything if a no-cache header is
> sent, not even if it calls another program to display the contents. So
> it calls acrobat with data that IE refuses to pass. So acrobat starts
> with data that is not there.
>
> Let me do another guess: you are sending "do-cache" headers because IE
> needs them to overcome the above problem, and you are using sessions.
>
> In this case, you need to know that a session_start() call also sends
> no-cache headers. This is poorly (if at all) documented and took me a
> few months to find out as well.
>
> So if you send headers like "Pragma-cache", send them *after* you use
> the session_start() function.

tried all of the above with no success. i'm testing using IE 7. acrobat
reader comes up in the browser as it should, and always has, it's just that
there is still no content, errors, or anything else...just blank.

any other thoughts?

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