[ic] problem setting up downloads

[Jonathan Clark]

> I am trying to setup some pages for downloading pdf newsletters.  The
> downloads work in mozilla, but not in IE (6).   IE just presents a blank
> page with:
>
> <p>&nbsp;</p>
>
> Does anyone know how I can resolve this?
>
> TIA.
>
> Chris
>
> ----------- newsletters.html -------------
> ....
> <td align="center">
> [query sql="select sku from products where category = 'newsletter'"
>          type=list
>          more=1
>            ml=10]
>
> <br>
> <br>
>    [list]
>      <A HREF="[area href=download_doc.html
> form='doc_download=[sql-code]']"
> target="_NEW" type="application/pdf">[sql-description]</A><BR><BR>
>    [/list]

Can't say I have seen type= in an anchor tag before.. Also, your target for
a new window should be _BLANK not _NEW. (which is most likely your problem).

>
>    [more_list]
>       [more]
>    [/more_list]
>
> [/query]
> </td>
> ....
>
>
> --------- download_doc.html --------------
> [perl products]
>         my $type         = "application/pdf";
>         my $location = "pages/downloads/" . $CGI->{doc_download} ;
>
>         my $content = $Tag->file("$location");
>         my $len = length($content);
>         if(! $len) {
>                 Log("Not found: $Scratch->{deliverable} type=$type at
> $location, 404");
>                 $Document->header('Status: 404 not found');
>                 $Document->hot(1);
>                 $Document->write(<<EOF);
> Sorry, $Scratch->{deliverable} not found.
> EOF
>                 return;
>         }
>         $Document->header("Content-Type: $type\nContent-Length: $len");
>         $Document->hot(1);
>         $Document->write($content);
>         return;
> [/perl]

Why not use the [file] tag? Here's a code snippet from a download page I
have used:

[tag op=header interpolate=1]
Content-type: application/octet-stream
Content-disposition: inline; filename=[scratch file_name]
Content-length: [scratch file_size]
[/tag]
[file name="upload/docmgt/[cgi instance_id]/[cgi file_id]"]

Jonathan


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