Thank you very much for this. Another thing to keep in mind with IE and PDFs is that IE often (but not always) cannot correctly identify a document as being a PDF if you are using HTTP compression. Sometimes the PDF will load correctly, sometimes you'll get a blank page and sometimes you'll get an error message from Acrobat saying it's not a valid PDF file.
This is a problem even if you have the MIME type and everything else set correctly. It is an especially annoying bug if you use IIS as your web server because IIS doesn't allow you to turn compression on or off on an site basis, only on a global basis. So if you want to serve PDFs with IIS you can't use compression on anything else served by IIS either. On Apr 5, 10:55 am, "Mike Axiak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Apparently there's a bug with IE whereby Vary will hurt Acrobat's > ability to view pdfs. > Since Vary is ingrained into the souls of many of Django's middleware, > I have provided an additional middleware which deletes Vary in times > when IE might break because of it. > FixIEVaryBugMiddleware is available > athttp://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/157/ > > Hope this helps you, > > Mike Axiak > > On Apr 4, 11:41 pm, queezy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Ah, the light just went on (finally!). I will put the http variable in > > where pdfbytes is found. > > > Thanks Malcolm! > > > Cheers! > > > -Warren > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Malcolm Tredinnick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <django-users@googlegroups.com> > > Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 6:50 PM > > Subject: Re: Django app serves PDFs but browser doesn't render them > > > > On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 18:46 -0700, queezy wrote: > > >> Hi Malcolm! > > > >> Actually I tried the following (and gave Ned credit for solving half of > > >> my > > >> problem): > > > >> from django.http import HttpResponse > > >> from django.shortcuts import render_to_response > > >> import urllib > > > >> def front(request): > > >> sock = > > >> urllib.urlopen("/home2/a12007/webapps/officeprofiler/profiler/templates/officechoice.html") > > >> html = sock.read() > > >> sock.close() > > >> return HttpResponse(html) > > > >> def officereport(request): > > >> selected_choice = request.POST['office'] > > >> sock = > > >> urllib.urlopen("/home2/a12007/webapps/officeprofiler/profiler/"+selected_choice) > > >> html = sock.read() > > >> sock.close() > > >> # response = HttpResponse(pdfbytes, mimetype='application/pdf') > > >> response['Content-Disposition'] = 'attachment; > > >> filename='+selected_choice > > >> return response > > > >> When I comment out the attachment statement, so thepdfis to be viewed, > > >> it > > >> doesn't work. However, when I comment out the non-attachment version, I > > >> get > > >> the download box. That is why previously I said that it solved half of > > >> my > > >> problem. > > > >> That is the case at WebFaction hosting. When I am at work on a Linux > > >> server > > >> there it tells me that "pdfbytes" is undefined. > > > > That's because it is undefined. Where are you creating the "pdfbytes" > > > variable? Do you mean to use the "html" variable there? The error > > > message is telling you exactly what is wrong here. > > > > Malcolm --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
