"Roberto S. G." wrote:
>
> hi,
> i've been posting some messages to this forum regarding PDF attachments
> being mangled
> when downloaded/opened throu squirrelmail.
> i'd like to inform some people who had the same problem, that the
> problem isn't in squirrel:
I disagree, based on this simple test I just did:
I downloaded the i1040ez.pdf form from the IRS web site.
I saved it to the desktop.
I sent it to myself with SQMail
Now, I opened with IE (6.02 XP-SP2):
* Clicking on the file name under Attachments, tries to open within the
frame (via the Acrobat plugin), and I got the blank page
* Clicking on the 'download' link, it opens Acrobat reader standalone,
and it opens without problems
Now, I opened with Netscape Communicator 4.x (without the Acrobat
Plugin)
* Clicking on the file name under Attachments, fires Acrobat standalone,
and I get:
"Adobe reader could not open 'xxxxxx.pdf' because it is either not a
supported file type or because the file has been corrupted (for exampel,
it was sent as an email attachment and wasn't correctly decoded)."
* Clicking on the 'donwload' link, it defaults to 'save-as' (That's how
Netscape is configured)
Now, using Netscape Communicator 4.x (with the Acrobat Plugin)
* Clickin on the file name, does not give any errors, but the
right-frame gets completely stuck
The link to the filename is:
http://xxxx/webmail/src/download.php?startMessage=1&passed_id=448129&mailbox=INBOX&ent_id=2
The link to the download option is:
http://xxx/webmail/src/download.php?absolute_dl=true&passed_id=448129&mailbox=INBOX&ent_id=2
Bringing up both files in a hex editor, shows that the bad version (via
filename) is completely different than the 'download' version. Even
though they are the same size...
My .02...
begin:vcard
adr;dom:;;;Lawrenceville;NJ;08648;
adr:;;2083 Lawreceville Road;Lawrenceville;NJ;08648;
n:Stella;Ricardo
tel;work:1-609-896-5000 x7436
x-mozilla-html:FALSE
url:http://poseidon.rider.edu
org:Rider University;O.I.T.
version:2.1
title:Manager
x-mozilla-cpt:;-6864
fn:Ricardo Stella
end:vcard
