It's probably Fillinform, which is an evil hack that does a regex on your body. With regards Marcus Ramberg
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 12:59 PM, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > --- On Tue, 12/2/08, Steve Sabljak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > From: Steve Sabljak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Re: [Catalyst] Extra characters inserted into PDF output > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], "The elegant MVC web framework" < > [email protected]> > > Date: Tuesday, December 2, 2008, 10:55 PM > > On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > --- On Tue, 12/2/08, Steve Sabljak > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >> From: Steve Sabljak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >> Subject: Re: [Catalyst] Extra characters inserted > > into PDF output > > >> To: "The elegant MVC web framework" > > <[email protected]> > > >> Date: Tuesday, December 2, 2008, 6:30 PM > > >> On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 5:25 AM, Dr. Jennifer > > Nussbaum > > >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> > --- On Tue, 12/2/08, Robin Berjon > > >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> > > > >> >> From: Robin Berjon > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >> >> Subject: Re: [Catalyst] Extra characters > > inserted > > >> into PDF output > > >> >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], "The elegant > > MVC web > > >> framework" <[email protected]> > > >> >> Date: Tuesday, December 2, 2008, 8:57 AM > > >> >> On Dec 2, 2008, at 17:02 , Dr. Jennifer > > Nussbaum > > >> wrote: > > >> >> > My PDF files are being uploaded and > > saved in > > >> the > > >> >> database apparently correctly. Then what > > seems to > > >> be > > >> >> happening is that somewhere in the binary > > stream > > >> of PDF, > > >> >> there is a (random) sequence of > > "<!", > > >> and > > >> >> somewhere later there is a > > ">". And > > >> something > > >> >> is inserting a "--" before the > > >> ">". > > >> >> > > > >> >> > My debugging statements show that > > Catalyst is > > >> >> outputting the correct size of the file, > > which > > >> suggests that > > >> >> the insertion is happening elsewhere. > > >> >> > > >> >> The one thing you're not saying is > > under what > > >> Catalyst > > >> >> is running when it's producing that. > > Are you > > >> running > > >> >> FastCGI? Mod_perl? Stand-alone > > development server? > > >> > > > >> > This happens both under the standalone server > > and > > >> under Apache/mod_perl. > > >> > > > >> >> If it happens in all of those then the > > bug is > > >> probably in > > >> >> your code (though after your debugging > > >> statements). > > >> > > > >> > Ive shown all the code for the view, so you > > can see > > >> anything that happens after the debugging.... > > >> > > > >> >> If the > > >> >> insertion is indeed happening outside > > that pretty > > >> much just > > >> >> leaves the Web server, or perhaps a > > proxy. Wild > > >> stab in the > > >> >> dark: do you happen to have SSI turned > > on? > > >> > > > >> > Yes, but only on the actual server. My dev > > box running > > >> the standalone server isnt doing any SSI's. > > >> > > > >> > This is baffling. > > >> > > > >> > Jen > > >> > > > >> > > >> So, if you use (literally) > > >> > > >> > > $c->res->output('XXXXX<!XXXXXX>XXXXX'); > > >> > > >> does it output > > 'XXXXX<!XXXXX-->XXXXX'? > > >> (you might want to change the content-type to > > text/plain > > >> for this test > > >> if testing with a browser) > > > > > > I dont know if this was a rhetorical question designed > > to show how stupid i am, or a real question, but the answer > > is "yes". Or, rather, if I change my output > > routine to > > > > > > > > $c->res->output('XXXXX<!XXXXXX>XXXXX'); > > $c->res->content_type('text/plain'); > > > > > > Then what i get in my browser is: > > > > > > XXXXX<!--XXXXXX-->XXXXX > > > > > > Where does this leave me? WHY is this happening? > > > > > > Jen > > > > > > > No, not rhetorical or designed to do anything, just trying > > to narrow > > down where it's happening. Do the extra characters get > > inserted when > > you do this? > > > > require bytes; > > > > my $content = 'XXXXX<!XXXXXX>XXXXX'; > > $c->res->content_type('text/plain'); > > $c->res->content_length(bytes::length($content)); > > $c->finalize_headers > > $c->write($content); > > > > Does that still insert the unwanted chars? > > Two interesting things. First, *NO*, that does *NOT* display the unwanted > characters. Wow. > > Second, in response to an off-list suggestion from Tom Doran, i created a > test app in which the only thing i did was change the index method in > Controller/Root from the "hellow orld " welcome message to > > $c->res->output('XXXXX<!XXXXXX>XXXXX'); > $c->res->content_type('text/plain'); > > And that also does *NOT* display the unwanted characters. > > This suggetsts that its something in my plugins or app that is doing this. > But i still cant see where. My plugin line is: > > use Catalyst qw/ConfigLoader Authentication Authorization::Roles Session > Session::Store::DBIC Session::State::Cookie Static::Simple RequireSSL > FormValidator FillInForm/; > > and my only end processing (someone else asked about this) is: > > sub render : ActionClass('RenderView') { } > > sub end : Private { > my ( $self, $c ) = @_; > $c->forward('render'); > if (defined $c->stash->{edit_data} ) { > $c->fillform( $c->stash->{edit_data} ); > } else { > $c->fillform; > } > } > > If there is a response body RenderView is supposed to do nothing; and... > hmm... > > This looks like it's going to call fillform() even if theres a response > set... <Jen codes> > > THATS IT! > > I just added "return if $c->response->body;" after the forward and it > works! Nothing inserted! The problem was with fillform all the time. > > Thank you, thank you all for helping me in such detail! I never would have > gotten there on my own. > > Should the docs be clarified? In the firs tpart of the FillInForm docs > there *IS* something about skipping the view if output is set, but at the > bottom where it talks about RenderView (which must be where i got this) it > DOESNT say this. > > Thank you all again! > > Jen > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > List: [email protected] > Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst > Searchable archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/ >
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