[thelist] Serving PDFs

Chris Price chris.price at choctaw.co.uk
Thu Feb 22 16:59:27 CST 2007


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.
>   
Thanks Noah. I didn't get the opportunity to try this out myself but I 
asked someone else to try it and they had success.

I'm hoping this will work for the client also.

Was this a hunch or can you explain the method.

Kind Regards
-- 
Chris Price

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