Posted by Frank Arensmeier on 10/02/71 11:27

These were all good suggestions, unfortunately none of them was able to
solve my problem. I did a rather simple test to eliminate at least some
of the possible causes. I changed the script in order to do three
simple things: send a Content-type header, read an existing PDF
document into a string, output the content and exit.

This is working in Safari, Firefox and many other browsers. Explorer
(both Mac and Windows) says 'no'! 'The file could not be found....'
Could it be that Explorer in some way don't accept redirects? But
redirects are made on the webserver, right? I tried to figure out if
some header information was send during the redirection. But echoing
apache_request_headers and apache_response_headers gave no result. So,
the question remains: what is causing Microsoft Explorer to fail on the
download?

Maybe the idea with static links isn't so good after all. I mean, if I
do the same thing with a usual GET request, even Explorer won't make
any trouble. But on the other hand, the "PDF-generating-thing" is
supposed to be on an other server than the webserver. And I don't like
to expose this server to the Internet.

Any ideas are still welcome!

/frank

2005-09-22 kl. 18.55 skrev Steve Lefevre:

> Philip Hallstrom wrote:
>
>>
>> We finally figured out that IE was beginning the download of the PDF
>> itself, but if it downloaded more than about 1mb, it would pass it
>> off to a helper application to do the rest. The thing was the helper
>> application remade the request. But it wasn't passing along the form
>> parameters used to generate the PDF so he was always getting a blank
>> PDF (blank in the sense of generically empty).
>
>
> If that is what's happening here, I can offer a solution -- I am using
> R&OS ( www.ros.co.nz/*pdf*/ ) to dynamically generate pdfs, which I
> first write to the server, and then I have just a regular link
> available to the user. That solved a lot of issues for me.
>
> Steve Lefevre
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