displaying a pdf from within perl not via hyperlink

linctus · Jul 23, 2003

Thanks very much for answering may cry for help paulteg with the possible solution below to my earlier question regarding this topic. I should have been more specific. I know that now but that was my first thread post. Sorry

Anyway the line of code paul gave me works fine but...
I want to have a menu item link that once clicked on by the user fires a perl script that does a couple of things.
1. uses the user logon to extract a specific pdf file. (I can do that)
2. Then displayes that pdf in the web browser without any further prompt from the user. (I can't do that)

If I use the line of code below to do part two of my script it requires the user to click again. This time on the link >Your PDF<.

print "<a href=\"pdfs/user0001.pdf">Your PDF</a>\n";

Does that make sense??

PaulTEG · Jul 23, 2003

You could output a meta refresh header, or a redirect

print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n";
print "<html><head><meta http-equiv="REFRESH" content="0;

http://yourdomain/pdfs/user0001.pdf"></head><body></body>";

The location and redirect syntax I'm not sure of, sorry

Also, as you get more comfortable with Perl look up CGI.pm, as it will generate compliant headers
Regards
--Paul

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