Re: Problem with Internet Explorer when downloading / viewing dynamically generated PDF files

From: Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 16:55:12 +0000
Subject: Re: Problem with Internet Explorer when downloading / viewing dynamically generated PDF files
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Philip Hallstrom wrote:
We finally figured out that IE was beginning the download of the PDF itself, but if it downloaded more than about 1mb, it would pass it off to a helper application to do the rest. The thing was the helper application remade the request. But it wasn't passing along the form parameters used to generate the PDF so he was always getting a blank PDF (blank in the sense of generically empty).
If that is what's happening here, I can offer a solution -- I am using R&OS ( www.ros.co.nz/*pdf*/ ) to dynamically generate pdfs, which I first write to the server, and then I have just a regular link available to the user. That solved a lot of issues for me. Steve Lefevre

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