[Zope] zserver and pdf's from buffer

Casey Duncan cduncan@kaivo.com
Fri, 13 Apr 2001 08:29:19 -0600


Jason.Jones@awl.com wrote:
> 
> I have PDF files stored in an Interbase database that I am retrieving with gvib from an external method. The result is a buffer object that I would like to output to the browser so that the acrobat control opens to display it. All I get though is the text of the pdf stream.
> 
> I am setting the response content-type to application/pdf and I am using response.write() to stream the buffer out. Is this wrong? Do I need to create a temporary external file and send that instead?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jason
> 

Why are you streaming the output instead of just pushing it out in one
shot (like with return)?

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