[Catalyst] PDF upload problems (prob OT)?

[Adeola Awoyemi]

On 7 Nov 2008, at 16:24, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote:

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

I'm not sure of this but I'm guessing you will need to do something  
like:

     binmode $upload->fh;

so the file is treated as binary data before calling "$upload->slup".

HTH,
Adeola.


>
>
> --- 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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