sounds like you're at the level of needing ethereal, or some similar
tool, running on the client side. it has helped me a lot of times when
browsers were doing something unintuitive. it won't really give you a
lot of help on the https connection, but since the problem occurs with
http, you should be able to see exactly what headers/info the browser is
getting, and what it is actually trying to retrieve. you might also run
the network trace first while downloading the file with firefox to
provide a "benchmark" for what a clean transaction looks like.
ps--i'd still be careful about the whitespace in this component. in our
shop, we use %'s at the top and bottom as well as to provide space
between tags like </%args> and <%init> so that the mason compiler
doesn't produce extra whitespace. take a look at the obj file before and
after this change and it should be insightful.
J Cook wrote:
> Thanks for the replies, and sorry for not showing the code. I had the
> following code in a dhandler that was causing trouble with IE:
>
> <%args>
> $arg1 => ''
> </%args>
>
> <%init>
> my ($order) = ($r->filename =~ /.*?\/letters\/(.*?)\.pdf/gi);
> my $output = generate_pdf($order, $arg1);
> #$r->content_type('application/pdf');
> $m->clear_buffer;
> $m->print($output);
> $m->abort;
> </%init>
>
> <%flags>
> inherit => undef
> </%flags>
>
> I changed the code to:
>
> <%args>
> $arg1 => ''
> </%args>
>
> <%init>
> $m->clear_buffer;
> my ($order) = ($r->filename =~ /.*?\/letters\/(.*?)\.pdf/gi);
> my $output = generate_pdf($order, $arg1);
> $r->content_type('application/pdf');
> $r->headers_out->{'Content-Disposition'} =
> "attachment; filename=$order.pdf";
> $r->headers_out->set('Content-Length' => length($output));
> $r->send_http_header;
> $m->print($output);
> $m->abort(OK);
> </%init>
>
> <%flags>
> inherit => undef
> </%flags>
>
> And it still wouldn't work for IE. The error I get is:
> 1. File Download Security Warning - it asks if I want to download the file.
> 2. I click on save or open and I get the "file download" popup but I get
> another popup immediately after saying:
> "IE cannot download filename.pdf from www.domain.com. IE was not able
> to open this Internet site. The requested site is either unavailable or
> cannot be found. Please try again later."
> I click on "OK" and it aborts the download.
>
> Now the above error always happened with a http:// request, but I found
> that it works fine if the request is https://. Go figure. So I guess
> I'll accept that and always link to it using ssl. Wonder why that is though.
>
> Justin
>
>
>
> Andreas Marienborg wrote:
>
>>At work we serve custom PDF files with the following component:
>>
>>$m->clear_buffer;
>>$r->content_type("application/pdf");
>>$r->headers_out->set('Content-Length' => length($data));
>>$r->send_http_header;
>>$m->print($data);
>>$m->abort(OK)
>>
>>where $data is the PDF document as a scalar.
>>
>>and for future questions, a code snippet might help alot in aiding you
>>better :)
>>
>>
>>andreas
>>
>>
>>On 27. jul. 2006, at 23.10, 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?
>>>
>>>Justin
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