I found the problem, it was in my session_handler.pl, which is pretty
much a stock version that I got off of masonhq.com for use with
MasonX::Request::WithApacheSession. I commented out:
# return -1 if $r->content_type && $r->content_type !~ m|^text/|io;
out of my handler sub. Now it works fine but I'm wondering if this is
the best way to handle it - it seems this line is here to restrict my
mason app from serving anything other than a text/(html|plain) document.
Will commenting this out cause any problems?
Justin
Sherrard Burton wrote:
> 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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