We just ran into this problem also. It's reported in ticket 6027: http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/6027
GzipMiddleware and responses with files for content (rather than strings) don't get along... --Ned. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've been tearing my hair out for a little while trying to figure out > why I can't display pdfs from Django in Firefox. I'm getting blank > windows and I know it used to work ;-) > > I'm using the code from the documentation (http:// > www.djangoproject.com/documentation/outputting_pdf/), removing > "attachment;" from the Content-Disposition to make the pdf display in- > browser and not open an external viewer. > > I've printed the response object, and everything looks ok. It works > fine in IE7. I can view other pdf files in FF (e.g. > http://www.merlinautomation.co.uk/automation/pub/Test%20Product%20PDF.pdf). > > I read in an old thread that older versions of IE could have problems > with the pdf/gzip combination, so that gave me the idea to turn off > GZipMiddleware... and that "fixed it". > > I'd prefer to not turn of compression for all of my pages though, so > two questions (1) does it seem reasonable that GZipMiddleware is the > problem and if so (2) is there a way to turn it off on a per-view > basis? > > -- bjorn > > > > -- Ned Batchelder, http://nedbatchelder.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
