Thanks Marcus, is there is a easy way to get the content length?
I tried $length = calculate_body_len(); $r->err_headers_out->add('Content-Length' => $length); Which gave me a corrupted content error, I also tried my $body_len = calculate_body_len(); $r->set_content_length($body_len); $r->rflush; Which just did nothing. Thx -Chris From: Marcus Don [mailto:m...@names.co.uk] Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2013 9:12 AM To: Chris Faust Cc: modperl@perl.apache.org Subject: Re: Help on debugging print problem At a guess, I'd say your new machine is using chunked output, so you might need to add a size header. Marcus On 30 May 2013, at 12:11, "Chris Faust" <cfa...@doyougot.com> wrote: Hi, I have some code I use all the time I use to download a file: if (-e '/report.pdf') { open(PDF, '/report.pdf') or die "could not open PDF $!"; binmode PDF; my $output = do { local $/; <PDF> }; close(PDF); $r->content_type('application/pdf'); $r->err_headers_out->add('Content-Disposition' => 'attachment; filename="report.pdf"'); $r->print($output); } I've never had a problem before using the above until trying to do it on a new machine. On that machine every time I still get prompted to download the file but FF/IE says its only 20 bytes (even though the pdf is 200k on the file system) and what is downloaded is not what is on the filesystem. I tried different files, different paths etc with the same results so I don't think it's a location or permissions issue. The only thing that gets logged in the attempt is: TIGHT LOOP!!!: Apache2::RequestRec=SCALAR(0x47e2f78) can't Apache2::RequestRec::print! Any ideas how I could further debug that error to find the cause? TIA! -Chris