Zahir Lalani wrote:
>  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;
>  
>  ====
>  
>  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
>  
>  
>  -- 
>  Zahir Lalani
>  SystemZ
>  zahir@[...].net <mailto:zahir@[...].net>
>   
>  



Try letting perl tell you  when there is a problem

open(DLFILE, "<$files_location\test.pdf")|| die("can't open datafile: $!");

I would also put in

use warnings;
use strict;

and

use CGI::Carp;
die "Fatal error messages are now sent to browser";


John




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