[thelist] PDF pooping out

Andrew Clover and at doxdesk.com
Wed Jan 29 09:00:19 CST 2003


Cory Preus wrote:

> Lately on our webservers we've been running into difficulty with serving
> PDFs.

> "The file is damaged and could not be repaired"

This is with the IE PDF plug-in, right? A lot of people have seen this
error.

I *think* (I don't do much with PDF myself so I haven't tested this) it may
be to do with a lack of Content-Length header in the HTTP response; apparently
some versions of the PDF plug-in don't like dealing with files whose length
isn't known in advance.

Got a URL to check for the header on?

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