>Sounds like your file associations are bad on that PC if that's the
case.
 
Oddly, after killing off AcroRead32, it started behaving much better, so
I suspect that may have been the problem in the first place. Just
strange that Mozilla didn't have any issues.
 
 

   -----Original Message-----
   From: Guy Morton [mailto:guy@alchemy.com.au]
   Sent: Monday, 19 June 2006 7:13 PM
   To: Leigh Sharpe
   Cc: melbourne-pm
   Subject: Re: [Melbourne-pm] Delivering PDFs via CGI
   
   

   Sounds like your file associations are bad on that PC if that's the
   case. At any rate, the workaround *does* work for me so perhaps you
   have an error in your code somewhere? Perhaps you could post your
   code, and details of browser, OS etc you are testing with?
   
   Are you being careful to only put two new line characters on the end
   of your *last* header?
   
   Guy
   
   
   Leigh Sharpe wrote: 

      Tried that, too. IE then attempted to open the PDF with Word. And
      failed miserably to do so.
       
      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
       

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      From: Guy Morton [ mailto:guy@alchemy.com.au] 
      Sent: Monday, June 19, 2006 4:55 PM
      To: Leigh Sharpe
      Subject: Re: [Melbourne-pm] Delivering PDFs via CGI
      
      

      try adding a content-disposition line and put a filename in it, eg
      
      

                 print "Content-Type: application/pdf\n";
                 print "Content-Disposition: attachment;
         filename=youradhere.pdf\n";
                 print "Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary\n\n";
         

      hth
      
      Guy
      
      Leigh Sharpe wrote: 

         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
          
         
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