Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.

Re: Serving pdf documents

Author:Chris Bunch
Posted:5/16/1999; 1:27:48 PM
Topic:A dream: Posting to a DG via email
Msg #:6325 (In response to 6324)
Prev/Next:6324 / 6326

Thanks Andre

In fact, user.webserver.prefs.type2MIME already contains an entry for the binary type 'PDF '. When you look at the PDF file you imported, what binary type are they?

I imported the file as text after changing (Mac) file type and creator to TEXT/MOSS. I can't see how to import it directly as pdf (PDF/CARO). PDF is I believe an ASCII only format so this should not be a problem. MainResponder is happy to return it as is, I think, but with Content-Type="text/html". My guess is if there were a way of persuading mainResponder to put "application/pdf" into the response header, then the browser would call Acrobat Reader/plugin rather than display it as raw pdf

I'm not sure how I would import it as a binary (on a Mac): can you help?

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