john is right about the whitespace, but a 404 would have nothing to do
with whether the content is generated on the fly or served from
somewhere else on the filesystem.
my guess is that something is not quite right with your mason setup. i
would break it down to a simple test case where you have a dhandler that
just dumps the apache headers or something simple like that, because it
doesn't look like your dhandler is actually getting called. you could
also create the same kind of test component in an actual file with a
.html or .pdf extension to see if they are served and parsed by mason.
John Williams wrote:
> You have carriage returns before and after <% $output %> which could be
> messing up your pdf, and which would definitely mess up a gif or jpeg.
>
> Try putting the output inside the <%init> section and abort when you are
> done, like this:
>
> <%init>
> # ... generate pdf ...
> $r->content_type('application/pdf');
> $m->clear_buffer;
> $m->print($output);
> $m->abort;
> </%init>
>
> ~ John Williams
>
>
> On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, J Cook wrote:
>
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I have a module that generates a pdf file on the fly that I want to use
>>with Mason. So I have a directory named /pdfs and a dhandler that looks
>>like:
>>
>><%init>
>>my $file_name = ($r->filename =~ /.*?\/pdfs\/(.*?)\.pdf/gi);
>>$r->content_type('application/pdf');
>>my $output = generate_pdf($file_name);
>></%init>
>>
>><% $output %>
>>
>><%flags>
>>inherit => undef
>></%flags>
>>
>>And I have in httpd.conf I have:
>>
>> <FilesMatch "(\.html|.pdf)$">
>> SetHandler perl-script
>> PerlHandler MyApp::Mason
>> </FilesMatch>
>>
>>First off the file_name must match a database row, so generate_pdf can
>>use that info to make the pdf. So when I call something like:
>> http://example.com/pdfs/12345.pdf
>>I want to see a pdf pop up, but all I get is a 404 'Not Found' error. On
>>masonhq.com in the FAQs I read:
>>
>>"Use mod_perl's $r->content_type function to set the appropriate MIME
>>type. This will allow you to output, for example, a GIF file, even if
>>your component is called dynamicImage.html."
>>
>>Does this mean that Mason cannot serve a pdf file that is generated on
>>the fly like this? Do I need to name it with a .html extension and hope
>>this doesn't break in certain browsers? Or is it something in my code
>>above that is wrong?
>>
>>Justin
>>
>>
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