[ciapug] header problem

[Dave J. Hala Jr.]

Are you saying that readfile might be a better choice than
header("Location: http://www.example.com/");?  I see examples of both
in my google results and php.net

It works locally in both FF and IE, and is broken externally in both FF
and IE.

On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 09:45 -0500, David Champion wrote:
> Does this happen in all browsers, or just IE?
> 
> For downloading PDF and other docs, you can do something like this:
> 
> $file = fopen("report.pdf",rb);
> header("Content-Type: application/pdf");
> header(...
> readfile($fh);
> 
> There are some other headers that you should also send (Pragma, Expires, 
> Cache-Control...). Do some googlin' and you should find lots of examples.
> 
> -dc
> 
> Dave J. Hala Jr. wrote:
> > 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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