However, sigh, IE seems to have a bug so that Acrobat Reader is only loaded
when the URL ends with ".pdf" aka IE doesn't give a rats about the header
sent to it.
Using Telnet I can see that the pdf page is returned correctly but when
using IE I still get a blank page due to the fact that no (pre-generated)
pdf document is sent to it and therefore the URL doesn't contain a
"whatever.pdf" ind the end and therefore doesn't load Acrobat Reader.
Look at this example:
header("Content-Type: application/pdf");
flush();
passthru("C:\htmldoc -t pdf14 --quiet --jpeg size A4 --webpage
\"http://localhost/whatever.html\"";);
This works fine with Telnet (where output is nonsense),
but doesn't with IE (where the output would make sense).
Does anyone have a solution to this?
How to get IE to understand that the data sent to it is to be handled as a
pdf document (as in load Acrobat Reader)?
"Sviss Cobazor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> It seemed that it was Putty itself that wouldn't work for me (don't ask me
> why).
> So I used Telnet and it worked.
> After having my advicor (this is a education project) visiting me we found
> out why that passthru() function didn't work.
> It's very simple really, passthru() doesn't allow spaces in paths so
> "C:\program files\etc." becomes "C:\program" => false path.
> Removing the application (htmldoc.exe) to "C:\" instead did the job.
>
> For anyone else having same problems this is the correct way to type it
(my
> example):
>
> <?
> function topdf($filename, $options = "") {
> header("Content-Type: application/pdf");
> flush();
> passthru("C:\htmldoc -t pdf14 --quiet --jpeg size A4 --webpage
$options
> \"$filename\"");
> }
> ?>
>
> This function now works and sends the result pdf directly to the browser.
>
> Thanks for your time Court, I wouldn't have thought of using Telnet myself
> :)
>
> ~ Sviss
>
> "Court Shrock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > To explain the 400 bad request, you most likely had a typo when you
typed
> in
> > the HTTP request. The request is case-sensitive and very particular.
> Most
> > likely, the "Host: localhost" portion of the request messed up somehow.
> >
> > When you get a "HTTP/1.1 200 OK" response, that means that the webserver
> > accepted the request and will process your request. In order to test
> > whether or not the passthru function is doing things properly, you are
> > verifying what is being sent to the browser by simulating what the
browser
> > would send to your webserver and then what the browser is getting in
> > response. It will all start to make sense when you start seeing your
> files
> > output--of course, in the request that I had you type, I assumed the
file
> > that returns the pdf is named "index.php" or whatever file your
webserver
> > will retrieve when it gets a root "/" request. If this is not the case,
> you
> > need to replace the "GET / HTTP/1.1" line with "GET /yourfile.php
> HTTP/1.1"
> > or even "GET /yourfile.php?var1=whatever__yougettheidea HTTP/1.1".
> >
> > passthru is working properly if you see something like:
> > HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> > Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 23:20:35 GMT
> > Server: Apache/1.3.20 (Unix) PHP/4.0.6 mod_ssl/2.8.4 OpenSSL/0.9.6
> > X-Powered-By: PHP/4.0.6
> > Transfer-Encoding: chunked
> > Content-Type: application/pdf
> >
> > [lots of binary data]
> >
> > it isn't working if you see something like this:
> > HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> > Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 23:20:35 GMT
> > Server: Apache/1.3.20 (Unix) PHP/4.0.6 mod_ssl/2.8.4 OpenSSL/0.9.6
> > X-Powered-By: PHP/4.0.6
> > Transfer-Encoding: chunked
> > Content-Type: text/html
> >
> > <html>some stupid html, or nothing at all</html>
> >
> > in which case, I would try a different method to verify that data is
> > properly passing between php and htmldoc.exe.
> >
> > I hope this has addressed some of the confusion.
> > Court
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Sviss Cobazor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 5:12 PM
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: Re: [PHP-WIN] passthru() on Win98 ??
> > >
> > >
> > > I followed your instructions and got:
> > >
> > > HTTP/1.1 400 bad request
> > > > Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 01:05:57 GMT
> > > > Server: Apache/1.3.20 (Win32)
> > > > Connection: close
> > > > Content-Type: text/html charset=iso-8859-1
> > >
> > > ... And then the same in html source ... (in the putty window)
> > >
> > > So I didn't get what was expected but either way I'm not sure
> > > what to do if
> > > I did.
>
>
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