Hello,
I have an application I've been writing and using now for some years,
in support of my business. I use CGI::Application, and the login and
authentication plugins.
It sometimes would be nice to be able to serve PDF data instead of
HTML. These are not disk files: they are PDF reports that are
algorithmically generated. ( Generally, I use perl to generate TeX and
convert it to PDF with pdflatex ).
I have done some web searching, and nothing jumps out at me, with the
possible exception of something in CGI.pm about being able to specify
different or custom headers. When I try that, the "custom headers" wind up
as text inside an html wrapper. Quite useless.
Is there something about CGI::Application and the login plugin that
restricts output to HTML?
I suppose I could try redirection: user clicks on the "create a PDF"
link, the system responds by creating the PDF, storing it on disk in a
temp location, and returning a browser redirect to make the browser get
the temp file. Ick.
- Jerry Kaidor ( je...@tr2.com )
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