[Zope] Zope pdf's on the fly

[Dennis Allison]

Yes, I set them properly.  Unfortunately IE ignores them <sigh!>.

On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, John Ziniti wrote:

> Dennis Allison wrote:
> 
> >Microsoft's IE uses non-standard techniques to determine the type of a 
> >file.  To bend it to our will, we've found that the generation program
> >needs to be named with a '.pdf' extension.  This, of course, makes it a 
> >bit difficult to embed in a dtml call.  (As a form action, it works...)
> >
> >What I have is an external method that manages the interfact to HTMLDOC
> >by building a html file, sending it to HTMLDOC, gathering the result, and 
> >returning it with appropriate headers to the client.
> >
> >If I use a form to set up parameters to the external method and 
> >
> >	<form action="doit.pdf()">
> >	..
> >	</form>
> >
> >it works fine.  Of course, 
> >
> >	<dtml-varB expr="doit.pdf()">
> >
> >doesn't.
> >
> 
> Can't you just have the External Method use calls to setHeader
> to set the Content-type of the returned document.  I don't test
> much with IE, but surely it will obey the Content-type header?
> (Additionally, you can use "Content-dispostion" to set the filename
> to beautify that a bit also).
> 
> JZ
>