[ciapug] header problem

[Dave J. Hala Jr.]

I've got a php 5.x  script that creates a report. It works like this:
1) query the database based on user input
2) format the resultset as html
3) use the html to create a pdf file on hard drive
4) use the php header("location: report.pdf") function to open the pdf
in the users browser.

It worked well for a long time. It just stopped working. The interesting
thing is it runs fine on the secure intranet, but not on the outside
secure site.  I double checked and there aren't any log errors and the
the file is actually being created on the harddrive. It isn't a firewall
issue. It would appear that the process breaks at header function.

The same functions work properly on the both the inside and outside for
a number of other reports that take less time. Its almost like there is
timeout happening somewhere, but I'm not seeing any, nor can I find any
error messages.  To the end user, it just appears to hang.

Has anyone seen anything like this before?


:) Dave


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