On 6/21/2012 2:21 PM, Nick Tkach wrote: > Ok, I'm pretty sure I know the answer to this, but wanted to run it by > people more experienced. I have an unusual request from some business > users. They want to be able to request a pdf document from one site > (which we do control) when in a web page on a *different* site (which > we do control) *and* have it give that dialog where it prompts the > user to save it. This is the general idea: > > 1 User hits http://foo.com/sec1/blah/mydoc1.pdf > 2 Apache for foo.com "pulls" that pdf as a request to > http://bar.com/blah/otherstuff/mydoc1.pdf > 3 Apache for foo.com the offers up the pdf via the original page via > the "save" dialog > > The first, naive idea was to have something like this in the virtual > host on foo.com: > > RewriteRule ^/sec1/(*.pdf) http://bar.com/blah/otherstuff/mydoc1.pdf > > <FilesMatch "/sec1/*.pdf"> > Header always set Content-Disposition attachment > </FilesMatch > > > But that's not going to work, right? Since Apache's going to see that > request, redirect it to the other site, and then the *other* site is > the thing serving up that request, so there's no way the first one can > modify it, right?
Do you control foo.com or bar.com or both? If you only control foo, you can not set the header. If this is a tight requirement you can't get out of, your initial idea is close - just add the [P] flag (and load mod_proxy). However, this will turn foo.com into a proxy to bar.com which brings its own challenges. If you go this route you will want to tighten up the RewriteRule pattern a bit more as well as change the FileMatch to LocationMatch. -- Daniel Ruggeri
