Did this work well for you in all situations?
Can you share that piece of code?
We resorted to using javascript to open a window and redirect that way. It
is not too satisfactory since it performs differently. I'd like to have it
open in the same window as the page they link from.
Bruce
----- Original Message -----
From: "Adrian Cesana" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 6:46 PM
Subject: RE: Viewing PDFs
> 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????
>
> -------------------------------------------------
> Bruce Holm - Web Programmer
> Lattice Semiconductor Corp.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> -------------------------------------------------
>
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