Hi,
I've just downloaded the sources and read the "todo.xml" file which
says:
<action context="code" assigned-to="open">
Allow a Reader to give the content length to pipelines. This will
allow to correctly serve static PDFs (well-known IE+Acrobat bug)
without requiring to buffer the whole file in memory to know its
content length.
</action>
Leaving aside the fact that it has nothing to do with IE+Acrobat per se,
this would suggest that Cocoon is fundamentally broken here and that
readers are not in fact safe to use. I was planning to use Apache to
serve everything which isn't generated on-the-fly directly, but will
check out your suggestion of defining a tomcat context.
Cheers,
Mike.
On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 01:17:44PM +0100, Christopher Watson wrote:
> Mike
>
> Using the CVS version made it 'better' ...
> wget seemed to reliably get all the file.
> But I was still having intermittent problems when using a browser.
> The browser problems seemed to go away if I put a dummy query string on the
> end of the URL, e.g.
> http://server/something.pdf?a=a
> That's with IE6, haven't tried it elsewhere
>
> Sorry about the use of the word seemed , but then it's an intermittent
> problem :-?
>
> However, other bits of the CVS version functioned differently from release
> 2.0.1, (see my separate message)
> so I had to abandon it for now for my own purposes.
>
> I ended up defining a new tomcat context (in config/server.xml) to serve the
> pdf files, which seems (there's that word again) fine.
>
> Christopher Watson
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mike Dewar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: 22 April 2002 10:22
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: Problem with 'large' STATIC pdf files
> >
> >
> > I have exactly this problem, which I reported to this list last week. I
> > also tried wget and was surprised to see that it reported the size of
> > the file to be the truncated length, rather than the true length.
> > Looking in core.log I see the content-size reported as -1.
> >
> > Its an intermitant problem - if you can get the whole file cached then
> > everything appears to work normally.
> >
> > Let me know if you find a solution.
> >
> > Mike.
> >
> > On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 07:10:51PM +0100, Christopher Watson wrote:
> > > Vadim, the plot thickens.
> > >
> > > I've unearthed cygwin's wget.
> > > On the 2.0.2 release build it gets all 175958 bytes !
> > > Shame my browsers don't :-<
> > >
> > > BUT On the current CVS (HEAD branch) it only gets 32768 bytes.
> > >
> > > The opposite of what I would have expected/hoped
> > >
> > > Christopher
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Vadim Gritsenko [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > > Sent: 20 April 2002 16:44
> > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Christopher Watson'
> > > > Subject: RE: Problem with 'large' STATIC pdf files
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > From: Christopher Watson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > > >
> > > > > Can anyone help - from the archives I think there've been a
> > few people
> > > > down
> > > > > this road, but I haven't see anything very hopeful.
> > > > >
> > > > > I'm trying to serve up static PDF files using
> > > > >
> > > > > <map:match pattern="pdf/*.pdf">
> > > > > <map:read src="pdf/{1}.pdf" mime-type="application/pdf"/>
> > > > > </map:match>
> > > > >
> > > > > These are simply exposed as download/viewable files by <a
> > > > > href="pdf/something.pdf">
> > > > >
> > > > > If I right click and download, I only get the first 32768 bytes.
> > > > > The .pdf file file is 115Kb.
> > > > >
> > > > > Bizarrely, I can download all of an 82KB one with no problem
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > I did a sanity check with a large (300kb) image file
> > > > > served by
> > > > >
> > > > > <map:match pattern="images/*.jpg">
> > > > > <map:read src="images/{1}.jpg" mime-type="image/jpg"/>
> > > > > </map:match>
> > > > >
> > > > > which I could right-click and save OK.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > What am I doing wrong?
> > > > > Why the different behaviour?
> > > >
> > > > Should not be. Reader processes all file types similarly.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > Is there anywhere where a max file size is set for static .pdf's or
> > > > other
> > > > > file types?
> > > >
> > > > I don't think so.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > PS I can serve the pdf through another tomcat servlet OK
> > > > >
> > > > > Same behaviour in ie6, opera 6.0.1, ns 4.73
> > > >
> > > > Try with "wget -S".
> > > >
> > > > > Tomcat 4.0.1 Cocoon 2.0.1 WinNT4 jdk1.3.1
> > > >
> > > > Try Cocoon CVS version (or today's snapshot).
> > > >
> > > > Vadim
> > > >
> > > >
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