I have a Rails app that''s working perfectly (http://amuinsurance.com), but on Windows IE and no other browser, if I go for the URL: http://amuinsurance.com/content/marine_insurance.pdf -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/-OT--PDF%27s-not-Downloading-in-Win-IE-tf2034599.html#a5597794 Sent from the RubyOnRails Users forum at Nabble.com.
how is your server setup? Apache 1.3 + mod_fastcgi, Apache 2 + mod_fcgid, Apache 2 + Mongrel, lighttpd? Mike On 8/1/06, s.ross <cwdinfo@gmail.com> wrote:> > I have a Rails app that''s working perfectly (http://amuinsurance.com), but on > Windows IE and no other browser, if I go for the URL: > http://amuinsurance.com/content/marine_insurance.pdf > -- > View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/-OT--PDF%27s-not-Downloading-in-Win-IE-tf2034599.html#a5597794 > Sent from the RubyOnRails Users forum at Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________ > Rails mailing list > Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails >
Thanks for the quick reply. Apache 2 on Fedora proxied to lighttpd/mod_fastcgi. Everything else is working fine, but not this. Mike Garey-2 wrote:> > how is your server setup? Apache 1.3 + mod_fastcgi, Apache 2 + > mod_fcgid, Apache 2 + Mongrel, lighttpd? > > Mike > > On 8/1/06, s.ross wrote: >> >> I have a Rails app that''s working perfectly (http://amuinsurance.com), >> but on >> Windows IE and no other browser, if I go for the URL: >> http://amuinsurance.com/content/marine_insurance.pdf >> -- >-- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/-OT--PDF%27s-not-Downloading-in-Win-IE-tf2034599.html#a5598569 Sent from the RubyOnRails Users forum at Nabble.com.
On 8/1/06, s.ross <cwdinfo@gmail.com> wrote:> > I have a Rails app that''s working perfectly (http://amuinsurance.com), but on > Windows IE and no other browser, if I go for the URL: > http://amuinsurance.com/content/marine_insurance.pdfFor reasons I''m not sure about, feeding a pdf inline to IE doesn''t work a lot of the time. Change the code to send it as an attachment.
Resolved: This works:
def content
send_file(File.join(''path'', ''to'',
''my'', ''file.pdf''), :type =>
''application/pdf'', :disposition =>
''inline'') and return
end
I used a route to get the user here.
Thx again.
snacktime wrote:>
>
> For reasons I''m not sure about, feeding a pdf inline to IE
doesn''t
> work a lot of the time. Change the code to send it as an attachment.
>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: rails-bounces@lists.rubyonrails.org [mailto:rails- > bounces@lists.rubyonrails.org] On Behalf Of s.ross > Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 11:13 AM > To: rails@lists.rubyonrails.org > Subject: [Rails] [OT] PDF''s not Downloading in Win/IE > > > I have a Rails app that''s working perfectly (http://amuinsurance.com),but> on > Windows IE and no other browser, if I go for the URL: > http://amuinsurance.com/content/marine_insurance.pdf > --I had a huge problem like this a few weeks ago, and I don''t think it is specific to rails. Just serving static PDF''s was the problem. It only happens on IE + Acrobat Reader attempting to open in the same window, and (I believe) only if they are configured via named virtual host. If I used FF, everything worked. If I used xpdf or such, everything worked. Wget worked. Acrobat full version worked. If I used IE + Acrobat Reader with the ''open in same window'' option turned off, it worked. I installed several servers to see where it would replicate: Apache 1.3.36 (from source) Apache 2.0.48 (Suse Linux 9 RPM) <--broken Apache 2.0.48 (from source) Apache 2.0.49 (from source) Apache 2.0.58 (from source) Apache 2.2.2 (from source) Lighttpd 1.4.11 (from source) <--broken I found that only the 2.0.48 RPM from SUSE linux and lighty caused the problem. I solved Lighty via a post I found on google: $HTTP["url"] =~ "\.pdf$" { server.range-requests = "disable" } As I plan to retire the SUSE 9 distro soon, I temporarily solved the rest of the problem by redirecting PDF downloads to a 2.0.49 instance via: RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ^(.*\.pdf)$ http://www.example.com:22049/$1 I''m curious to know if the problem affects other versions. Could you tell me the distro of Linux and versions of Apache, IE, and Acrobat Reader that cause the problem? Thanks. Regards, Rich Duzenbury
>> -----Original Message----- >> From: rails-bounces@lists.rubyonrails.org [mailto:rails- >> bounces@lists.rubyonrails.org] On Behalf Of s.ross >> Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 11:13 AM >> To: rails@lists.rubyonrails.org >> Subject: [Rails] [OT] PDF''s not Downloading in Win/IE >> >> >> I have a Rails app that''s working perfectly (http://amuinsurance.com), > but >> on >> Windows IE and no other browser, if I go for the URL: >> http://amuinsurance.com/content/marine_insurance.pdf >> --> > I solved Lighty via a post I found on google: > $HTTP["url"] =~ "\.pdf$" { server.range-requests = "disable" }We solved it the same way... One issue I ran into a couple of years ago is that IE will download (itself) PDF''s up to about a meg. Then it will decide it''s too big, and hand it off to Adobe to do. Which means if you have any http-auth credentials, or the PDF is the result of a POST, you are fubarred... Not sure this is your problem, but something to keep in mind. And maybe it''s changed, but it drove me nuts when it happened to me... -philip