[thelist] Serving PDFs
Noah St. Amand
noah at tookish.net
Sun Feb 25 14:41:22 CST 2007
Hi Chris,
Chris Price wrote (2/22/07 5:59 PM):
> Noah St. Amand wrote:
>> This might be a bad practice, but I've had good luck with just the
>> following:
>>
>> header('Content-type: application/pdf');
>> header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="file.pdf"');
>> readfile('/path/to/file.pdf');
>>
>> I don't think I'm sending the length of the file anywhere. This might be
>> worth a shot.
>>
> Was this a hunch or can you explain the method.
When I had to do the same thing, I just used the PHP man pages and put
in as little code as I could in order to make it work.
Sorry, I guess that's not very insightful. I'm glad it's working for
you, though.
Cheers,
Noah
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