Hi All,
 Is it just me or has this list been really quiet recently?
 
Can anybody tell me how to output PDF files to a browser properly?
Specifically, I'm having trouble getting Internet Explorer to recognise
them as PDFs.
This, for example:
 
 #!c:\perl\bin\perl.exe
 use warnings;
 use strict;
 my $filename="c:\\temp\\mypdf.pdf";
 my $data;
 print "content-type:application/pdf\n\n";
 open (PDFFILE,"<$filename") or die "$!\n";
 binmode PDFFILE;
 binmode STDOUT;
 my $size = -s "$filename";
 read PDFFILE,$data,$size || die"$!\n";
 close PDFFILE;
 print $data;
 
 
Works perfectly when accessed using Mozilla. Using IE, I just get a
screen full of garbage. 
If I use a URL that ends in ".pdf", it works. eg, instead of
http://localhost/cgi-bin/mime.cgi, use
http://localhost/cgi-bin/mime.cgi?fred.pdf. All works fine.
Is this a bug in my browser, or am I overlooking something here?
I find the same problem with MS-Word documents. I need to have a
paramater which ends in ".doc" in order to have IE open a word doc
automatically.
 
 
 
Regards,
             Leigh
 
Leigh Sharpe
Network Systems Engineer
Pacific Wireless
Ph 9584 8966
Mob 0408 009 502
email lsharpe@pacificwireless.com.au
web www.pacificwireless.com.au