J Cook wrote:
> I am generating a pdf on the fly and serving it up with mason, I set the
> headers out -> content type application/pdf and this works fine in
> Mozilla and Firefox but Internet Explorer throws an error and won't
> proceed with the download. Anyone have any clue as to why this is?
You don't say whether you are using Mason with mod-perl or CGI, but if
you are using Apache2/mod-perl2, you should be using the $r "global"
object like this instead of setting the headers out:
$r->content_type( 'application/pdf' );
See this FAQ entry:
http://tinyurl.com/qkjcx
The other thing is to check is that IE is stupid in that it tries to be
cute and examines both the Content-Type header as well as the file
extension, so you should set and explicit filename using something like
this:
$r->headers_out->{'Content-Disposition'} =
"attachment; filename=generated.pdf";
That code is copied from an actual application that does just this.
HTH
John
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