[Catalyst] PDF upload problems (prob OT)?

[Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum]

Anyone willing to help me on this? :-) Im only missing four bytes, somewhere.... Or adding them rather.

Jen.


--- On Thu, 11/6/08, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum <bg271828 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum <bg271828 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [Catalyst] PDF upload problems (prob OT)?
> To: catalyst at lists.scsys.co.uk
> Date: Thursday, November 6, 2008, 9:15 AM
> Christopher Taranto wrote:
> 
> --- On Thu, 11/6/08, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
> <bg271828 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> >> And then my display code is:
> >> 
> >> # $document is already grabbed from the database
> >> $c->res->output($document); # overloaded to
> stringify
> >> to $document->document
> >>
> $c->res->headers->content_type($document->type);
> >>
> $c->res->headers->header('Content-Disposition'
> >> => 'attachment;
> >> filename=".$document->filename);
> >
> > My feeling is that you are treating the output as text
> when in fact a PDF
> > file is a binary file.
> 
> Im not clear on how to treat it different. The
> Catalyst::Response docs dont say anything about how to do
> this. What do i need to do to signal that this is a binary
> file?
> 
> And separately, is my "Content-Disposition" thing
> the right way of handlign the filename?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Jen
> 
> 
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