Re: Change in 5.2.1 re. parsing of URL
| From: | Fergus Gibson | Date: | Tue, 20 Feb 2007 09:24:20 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Change in 5.2.1 re. parsing of URL | ||
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Lewis Kapell wrote:
> http://www.mydomain.com/mypage.php/phonypage.pdf
>
> In this example there is a PHP script called mypage.php which serves
> up a PDF. Putting the extra text at the end of the URL makes it
> appear to the user's browser that the URL ends with '.pdf' rather
> than '.php'. We introduced this hack at my company because a few
> users were unable to view pages containing PDF or RTF content,
> presumably because of some combination of browser and/or firewall
> settings.
This is the proper way to handle this. If it doesn't work, the user's
browser is misconfigured.
<?php
header('Content-type: application/pdf');
// your PDF data
?>