Thanks heaps Mike! This is a great one to put in the toolbox. Have a super weekend!
-Warren ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Axiak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Django users" <django-users@googlegroups.com> Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2007 10:55 AM Subject: Re: Django app serves PDFs but browser doesn't render them > > Apparently there's a bug with IE whereby Vary will hurt Acrobat's > ability to view pdfs. > Since Vary is ingrained into the souls of many of Django's middleware, > I have provided an additional middleware which deletes Vary in times > when IE might break because of it. > FixIEVaryBugMiddleware is available at > http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/157/ > > Hope this helps you, > > Mike Axiak > > On Apr 4, 11:41 pm, queezy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Ah, the light just went on (finally!). I will put the http variable in >> where pdfbytes is found. >> >> Thanks Malcolm! >> >> Cheers! >> >> -Warren >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Malcolm Tredinnick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: <django-users@googlegroups.com> >> Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 6:50 PM >> Subject: Re: Django app serves PDFs but browser doesn't render them >> >> > On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 18:46 -0700, queezy wrote: >> >> Hi Malcolm! >> >> >> Actually I tried the following (and gave Ned credit for solving half >> >> of >> >> my >> >> problem): >> >> >> from django.http import HttpResponse >> >> from django.shortcuts import render_to_response >> >> import urllib >> >> >> def front(request): >> >> sock = >> >> urllib.urlopen("/home2/a12007/webapps/officeprofiler/profiler/templates/officechoice.html") >> >> html = sock.read() >> >> sock.close() >> >> return HttpResponse(html) >> >> >> def officereport(request): >> >> selected_choice = request.POST['office'] >> >> sock = >> >> urllib.urlopen("/home2/a12007/webapps/officeprofiler/profiler/"+selected_choice) >> >> html = sock.read() >> >> sock.close() >> >> # response = HttpResponse(pdfbytes, mimetype='application/pdf') >> >> response['Content-Disposition'] = 'attachment; >> >> filename='+selected_choice >> >> return response >> >> >> When I comment out the attachment statement, so thepdfis to be viewed, >> >> it >> >> doesn't work. However, when I comment out the non-attachment version, >> >> I >> >> get >> >> the download box. That is why previously I said that it solved half >> >> of >> >> my >> >> problem. >> >> >> That is the case at WebFaction hosting. When I am at work on a Linux >> >> server >> >> there it tells me that "pdfbytes" is undefined. >> >> > That's because it is undefined. Where are you creating the "pdfbytes" >> > variable? Do you mean to use the "html" variable there? The error >> > message is telling you exactly what is wrong here. >> >> > Malcolm > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
