[ciapug] uploading files with php

[Bryan Baker]

Sounds like maybe your (Moz based) browser's got an inconvenient mime 
type mapping.
Check in Edit->Pref's->Helper Applications and look for 
application/x-pdf.
AcroExch I think is an old name for Acrobat or maybe the plugin.

On Jul 11, 2005, at 8:42 AM, Scott Phillips wrote:
> Well, this looks like it worked... kind of.  IE opens it up, but 
> FireFox and Netscape display an open/save dialog box with the default 
> application being "AcroExch".  What the heck is that?  Can't find much 
> useful info on it.  It works, but I prefer that the docs open in 
> Reader straightaway like everyone is used to.  Do you have any more 
> info on this?
>
> Mike, I checked and the max size looks fine at this point.  (The 
> documents in question are only ~900K anyway.  I don't expect anything 
> larger.)
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
>
> At 02:48 PM 7/9/2005 -0500, you wrote:
>> I had this error with some ftp/scp/frontpage uploaded pdfs, and some 
>> googling finally turned up that in your apache mime types file you 
>> have to add
>> application/x-pdf       .pdf
>>
>> it should already have application/pdf
>>
>> /etc/httpd/conf/apache-mime.types on a mdk 10.1 box
>>
>> -barry
>>
>>
>> Scott Phillips wrote:
>>> OK.. I've got a script that allows me to upload files to the server.
>>> gif, jpg, txt, doc files all work perfectly.  However, I get an 
>>> error when trying to open uploaded PDFs: File does not start with a 
>>> '%PDF-'.
>>> There are other PDFs accessible on the same server, so I don't 
>>> *think* it's a mime type problem.  It must get corrupted when I 
>>> upload it.
>>> What's the deal?
>>>
>>> Scott Phillips
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