Hello

not sure what is going on here. I have a standard xampp install on win XP,
with the updated install of perl - which is activeperl 5.8.8. I have some
test code to send a pdf from the cgi to the browser as follows:


#!C:/Program Files/xampp/perl/bin/perl

print "Content-Type:application/pdf\n";
print "Content-Disposition:attachment;filename=test3.pdf\n\n";

my $files_location;
my $ID;
my @fileholder;

$files_location = "C:\Data\Perl";

open(DLFILE, "<$files_location\test.pdf");
binmode(DLFILE);
binmode(STDOUT);
@fileholder = <DLFILE> ;
close (DLFILE);

print @fileholder;

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When I run this, I get the save as dialog. Whether I save or open directly,
the resulting data is deemed as corrupt by acrobat. If I access the file
directly via apache rather than the cgi, it works fine. To make sure the
code was OK, I ran the same code (apart from the paths and the binmode) on a
unix install - and it worked fine. I also tried an equivalent version of PHP
via the xampp install - worked fine. So this seems to be a perl issue on
win32.

Has anyone got a clue as to what the problem could be?



Thx

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Zahir Lalani
SystemZ
zahir@systemz.net