Re: .pdf files in a perl cgi application?
[email protected] (David Dorward)
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On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 08:58:52AM -0700, Mary Anderson wrote: >> (Please keep this on the mailing list) No, really. Please keep this on the mailing list. You do that by emailing [email protected] rather than my private address. > Its not a cgi "macro image" but a "cgi macro" image. Oh. The img method of the CGI object. > Just the image function that expands into the html <img> tag. That's an HTML issue, not a CGI issue. PDF files aren't images, and aren't supported by browsers as images. > It won't accept .pdf files. No, you could try an object element, but PDFs are not nice things to view in a browser window at the best of times, embedded inside a tiny frame in a page - eugh. > Is there anyway the user can download a file through the web without > opening it? They can configure their client to not use the plugin. You could also look at sending a content disposition of attachment. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2183.txt -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk