I just went thru the same thing, I had to change my CFLOCATION's to a meta
redirect.
-Adrian
-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce Holm [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 6:27 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Viewing PDFs
I'm new to this list so if this has been beat to death already, please
forgive...
For viewing a .pdf file, we store the URL in a db table. When someone
clicks on the document url to view the file, it hits the db table, retrieves
the PDF's real URL and then CFLOCATIONs to that path. It works most of the
time but for some strange reason, on IE5.0 it's flakey. Sometimes it just
launches Acrobat Reader (of the full version) and just displays an empty
Acrobat Reader window.
It obviously recognizes that it is a PDF but not sure why the content is not
displayed. It also typically fails to display after the following sequence
pretty consistently...
Click on PDF link to view doc
Read Db table to get access permission and URL to PDF
Permission requires user login...display login page
Login successful...cflocate to the URL
Acrobat launches (if not already) but displays empty contents in window
If I now go back around (view the list of PDFs, click on the same one, no
login required this time because I'm already logged in, cflocate to the PDF)
it works fine this time.
But if I log out, then go through the above sequence, it fails every
time...only on IE5.0. IE5.5 works. Netscape 4.7 works.
Any ideas on this one????
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Bruce Holm - Web Programmer
Lattice Semiconductor Corp.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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