Re: Viewing PDFs
Did this work well for you in all situations? Can you share that piece of code? We resorted to using javascript to open a window and redirect that way. It is not too satisfactory since it performs differently. I'd like to have it open in the same window as the page they link from. Bruce - Original Message - From: "Adrian Cesana" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "CF-Talk" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 6:46 PM Subject: RE: Viewing PDFs I just went thru the same thing, I had to change my CFLOCATION's to a meta redirect. -Adrian -Original Message- From: Bruce Holm [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 6:27 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Viewing PDFs I'm new to this list so if this has been beat to death already, please forgive... For viewing a .pdf file, we store the URL in a db table. When someone clicks on the document url to view the file, it hits the db table, retrieves the PDF's real URL and then CFLOCATIONs to that path. It works most of the time but for some strange reason, on IE5.0 it's flakey. Sometimes it just launches Acrobat Reader (of the full version) and just displays an empty Acrobat Reader window. It obviously recognizes that it is a PDF but not sure why the content is not displayed. It also typically fails to display after the following sequence pretty consistently... Click on PDF link to view doc Read Db table to get access permission and URL to PDF Permission requires user login...display login page Login successful...cflocate to the URL Acrobat launches (if not already) but displays empty contents in window If I now go back around (view the list of PDFs, click on the same one, no login required this time because I'm already logged in, cflocate to the PDF) it works fine this time. But if I log out, then go through the above sequence, it fails every time...only on IE5.0. IE5.5 works. Netscape 4.7 works. Any ideas on this one - Bruce Holm - Web Programmer Lattice Semiconductor Corp. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
RE: Viewing PDFs
It seems to have cured ALL instances of this problem for me Basically I use this to redirect instead of the CFLOCATION now: meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=https://blah.com/reports/#PdfReport#" HTH,Adrian -Original Message- From: Bruce Holm [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Did this work well for you in all situations? Can you share that piece of code? We resorted to using javascript to open a window and redirect that way. It is not too satisfactory since it performs differently. I'd like to have it open in the same window as the page they link from. Bruce ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
Re: Viewing PDFs
Thanks, Adrian! How do you allow users to use the Back button to get "out" of the PDF doc? It seems to just redirect you back into the PDF. How did you get around that? Bruce - Original Message - From: "Adrian Cesana" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "CF-Talk" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 11:38 AM Subject: RE: Viewing PDFs It seems to have cured ALL instances of this problem for me Basically I use this to redirect instead of the CFLOCATION now: meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=https://blah.com/reports/#PdfReport#" HTH,Adrian ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
RE: Viewing PDFs
In my app using the back button in the PDF takes them back to the requesting page (im using 2 templates), so this works ok for me. Just guessing but it sounds like you have the template calling itself which normally should be fine...but perhaps this is the cause of what your describingMaybe another workaround is a link from within the PDF, Im pretty sure you can do that... Adrian -Original Message- From: Bruce Holm [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 2:09 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Viewing PDFs Thanks, Adrian! How do you allow users to use the Back button to get "out" of the PDF doc? It seems to just redirect you back into the PDF. How did you get around that? Bruce - Original Message - From: "Adrian Cesana" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "CF-Talk" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 11:38 AM Subject: RE: Viewing PDFs It seems to have cured ALL instances of this problem for me Basically I use this to redirect instead of the CFLOCATION now: meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=https://blah.com/reports/#PdfReport#" HTH,Adrian ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
Viewing PDFs
I'm new to this list so if this has been beat to death already, please forgive... For viewing a .pdf file, we store the URL in a db table. When someone clicks on the document url to view the file, it hits the db table, retrieves the PDF's real URL and then CFLOCATIONs to that path. It works most of the time but for some strange reason, on IE5.0 it's flakey. Sometimes it just launches Acrobat Reader (of the full version) and just displays an empty Acrobat Reader window. It obviously recognizes that it is a PDF but not sure why the content is not displayed. It also typically fails to display after the following sequence pretty consistently... Click on PDF link to view doc Read Db table to get access permission and URL to PDF Permission requires user login...display login page Login successful...cflocate to the URL Acrobat launches (if not already) but displays empty contents in window If I now go back around (view the list of PDFs, click on the same one, no login required this time because I'm already logged in, cflocate to the PDF) it works fine this time. But if I log out, then go through the above sequence, it fails every time...only on IE5.0. IE5.5 works. Netscape 4.7 works. Any ideas on this one - Bruce Holm - Web Programmer Lattice Semiconductor Corp. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
RE: Viewing PDFs
I just went thru the same thing, I had to change my CFLOCATION's to a meta redirect. -Adrian -Original Message- From: Bruce Holm [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 6:27 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Viewing PDFs I'm new to this list so if this has been beat to death already, please forgive... For viewing a .pdf file, we store the URL in a db table. When someone clicks on the document url to view the file, it hits the db table, retrieves the PDF's real URL and then CFLOCATIONs to that path. It works most of the time but for some strange reason, on IE5.0 it's flakey. Sometimes it just launches Acrobat Reader (of the full version) and just displays an empty Acrobat Reader window. It obviously recognizes that it is a PDF but not sure why the content is not displayed. It also typically fails to display after the following sequence pretty consistently... Click on PDF link to view doc Read Db table to get access permission and URL to PDF Permission requires user login...display login page Login successful...cflocate to the URL Acrobat launches (if not already) but displays empty contents in window If I now go back around (view the list of PDFs, click on the same one, no login required this time because I'm already logged in, cflocate to the PDF) it works fine this time. But if I log out, then go through the above sequence, it fails every time...only on IE5.0. IE5.5 works. Netscape 4.7 works. Any ideas on this one - Bruce Holm - Web Programmer Lattice Semiconductor Corp. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
