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size=2>Tried that, too. IE then attempted to open the PDF with Word. And failed 
miserably to do so.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2>Regards,<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
Leigh</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Leigh Sharpe<BR>Network Systems Engineer<BR>Pacific 
Wireless<BR>Ph 9584 8966<BR>Mob 0408 009 502<BR>email <A 
title=mailto:lsharpe@pacificwireless.com.au 
href="blocked::mailto:lsharpe@pacificwireless.com.au">lsharpe@pacificwireless.com.au</A><BR>web 
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href="blocked::http://www.pacificwireless.com.au/">www.pacificwireless.com.au</A></FONT></DIV></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> Guy Morton [mailto:guy@alchemy.com.au] 
<BR><B>Sent:</B> Monday, June 19, 2006 4:55 PM<BR><B>To:</B> Leigh 
Sharpe<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Melbourne-pm] Delivering PDFs via 
CGI<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<P>try adding a content-disposition line and put a filename in it, eg<BR><BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; print 
  "Content-Type: application/pdf\n";<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
  &nbsp;print "Content-Disposition: attachment; 
  filename=youradhere.pdf\n";<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;print 
  "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 
binary\n\n";<BR></BLOCKQUOTE>hth<BR><BR>Guy<BR><BR>Leigh Sharpe wrote: 
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  <DIV><SPAN class=858284006-19062006><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi 
  All,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
  <DIV><SPAN class=858284006-19062006><FONT face=Arial size=2>&nbsp;Is it just 
  me or has this list been really quiet recently?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
  <DIV><SPAN class=858284006-19062006></SPAN>&nbsp;</DIV>
  <DIV><SPAN class=858284006-19062006><FONT face=Arial size=2>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.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
  <DIV><SPAN class=858284006-19062006><FONT face=Arial size=2>This, for 
  example:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
  <DIV><SPAN class=858284006-19062006></SPAN>&nbsp;</DIV>
  <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>&nbsp;#!c:\perl\bin\perl.exe<BR>&nbsp;use 
  warnings;<BR>&nbsp;use strict;<BR>&nbsp;my 
  $filename="c:\\temp\\mypdf.pdf";<BR>&nbsp;my $data;<BR>&nbsp;print 
  "content-type:application/pdf\n\n";<BR>&nbsp;open (PDFFILE,"&lt;$filename") or 
  die "$!\n";<BR>&nbsp;binmode PDFFILE;<BR>&nbsp;binmode STDOUT;<BR>&nbsp;my 
  $size = -s "$filename";<BR>&nbsp;read PDFFILE,$data,$size || 
  die"$!\n";<BR>&nbsp;close PDFFILE;<BR>&nbsp;print $data;</FONT></DIV>
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  <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=858284006-19062006>Works perfectly 
  when accessed using Mozilla. Using IE, I just get a screen full of garbage. 
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  class=858284006-19062006></SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN 
  class=858284006-19062006>If I use a URL that ends in ".pdf", it works. eg, 
  instead of <A 
  href="http://localhost/cgi-bin/mime.cgi">http://localhost/cgi-bin/mime.cgi</A>, 
  use <A 
  href="http://localhost/cgi-bin/mime.cgi?fred.pdf">http://localhost/cgi-bin/mime.cgi?fred.pdf</A>. 
  All works fine.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
  <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=858284006-19062006>Is this a&nbsp;bug 
  in my browser, or am I overlooking something here?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
  <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=858284006-19062006>I find the same 
  problem with MS-Word documents. I&nbsp;need to have a&nbsp;paramater which 
  ends in&nbsp;".doc" in order to have IE open a word doc 
  automatically.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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  <DIV><FONT face=Arial 
  size=2>Regards,<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
  Leigh</FONT></DIV>
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  <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Leigh Sharpe<BR>Network Systems 
  Engineer<BR>Pacific Wireless<BR>Ph 9584 8966<BR>Mob 0408 009 502<BR>email <A 
  title=mailto:lsharpe@pacificwireless.com.au 
  href="blocked::mailto:lsharpe@pacificwireless.com.au">lsharpe@pacificwireless.com.au</A><BR>web 
  <A title=http://www.pacificwireless.com.au/ 
  href="blocked::http://www.pacificwireless.com.au/">www.pacificwireless.com.au</A></FONT></DIV></DIV>
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