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
Zahir