[Zope] PDF files in Zope 2.6

Dieter Maurer dieter@handshake.de
Tue, 12 Nov 2002 20:51:04 +0100


Jason Bush writes:
 > We recently upgraded from Zope 2.5 to 2.6 and are experiencing a problem 
 > with PDF's
 > loading via the browser (any) plugin. The Adobe plugin loads in the 
 > browser and the
 > user is presented a blank screen, as the content is either not sent or 
 > received properly.
 > This problem does not occur with all PDF files, however the ones that 
 > are being
 > affected did work with the prior version of Zope. Does anybody have 
 > knowledge of
 > the cause of this problem or where/if a fix can be obtained.
 > 
 > Also if the pdf's in question are downloaded rather than sent to the 
 > browser, the content
 > comes accross fine.
Early versions of Zope 2.5.x had problems with byte range requests
(they merged adjacent byte ranges; this seriously confused Acrobat).

Maybe, the fixes were lost in Zope 2.6.

Search the mailing list archives, for details.


Dieter