RE: [PHP-WIN] Tough decision ASP or PHP

Old topic, but I finally fixed my issue(s). In case anyone else is having trouble with PDFs and IE. I had two issues that were preventing PDFs to be dynamically created with PHP. First: I was using sessions to ensure the user should see this pdf. Using sessions caused three additional headers to be sent. Expires: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 01:33:27 GMT Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, precheck=0 Pragma: no-cache This caused some kind of problem with IE. Solution: session_write_close() before I send the headers. Second: I was using gzip as the output handler. Again IE didn't like to receive pdfs gziped. Netscape didn't have any trouble with either of these issues. :) Needless to say I am happy that I don't have to use ASP. :) Charles Killmer -----Original Message----- From: Asendorf, John [mailto:JAsendorf@lcounty.com] Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 1:42 PM To: Charles P. Killmer; php-windows@lists.php.net Subject: RE: [PHP-WIN] Tough decision ASP or PHP I'm filling out form PDFs on the fly with IIS and FDF without any problems... I don't know if that's what you mean by "creating PDF's" but if this ( http://www.lcounty.com/lchd/record_search/ ) is what you're looking for, (enter a name like smith then click on one of the application request icons) then you should be fine. John --------------------- John Asendorf - jasendorf@lcounty.com Web Applications Developer http://www.lcounty.com - NEW FEATURES ADDED DAILY! Licking County, Ohio, USA 740-349-3631 Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit > -----Original Message----- > From: Charles P. Killmer [mailto:charlesk@netgaintechnology.com] > Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 12:57 PM > To: php-windows@lists.php.net > Subject: RE: [PHP-WIN] Tough decision ASP or PHP > > > Thanks for all the great feedback. IIS is probably a requirement. > > The problem with PHP and PDFs is when php has to send the > headers for a PDF. IIS seems to get in the way. Does anyone > have a workaround for sending headers though PHP and IIS? > > Charles > > -----Original Message----- > From: Maxim Maletsky [mailto:maxim@php.net] > Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 12:00 PM > To: Charles P. Killmer > Cc: php-windows@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PHP-WIN] Tough decision ASP or PHP > > > > "Charles P. Killmer" <charlesk@netgaintechnology.com> wrote... : > > > I have to start building a a web site. And it needs to be > very stable. It will be creating a lot of pdf's on the fly > also. The problem that I have had with php creating pdfs is > that IIS sends a connection: close header. This makes the > pdfs very unreliable. > > I saw some of our code working on IIS and PDFs were just fine. This > depends though. but, there are always work arounds and IIS is not any > easier either. > > > > > I am guessing that the isapi version of php would resolve > this issue. Though the isapi version still has stability issues. > > I think so. > > > I hate to asp but am thinking that I may have to simply due > to stability. > > Think also about the stability in the long run - ASP needs more > maintainance than PHP, even on IIS. > > > > -- > Maxim Maletsky > maxim@php.net > > > > > -- > PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >