It shouldn't cause any problems, since you're already using a
<FilesMatch> to restrict the mason handler to the types you want. The
line you commented is intended to do the same job in the case where
you're using a <Location> or <Directory> to set the PerlHandler.
On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 15:54 -0400, J Cook wrote:
> 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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