Re: FN-FORUM: PHP/PDF problem

date posted 10th January 2004 13:15

On Friday 09 Jan 2004 10:14 pm, Andy Stafford wrote:
> The .pdf php file also has some logging in, so that each download is
> recorded - the problem is each download is recorded twice and I can't f=
or

Show us yer logs then.

> the life of me see why. Oddly, if the pdf link is clicked and acrobat i=
s
> closed as soon as it opens, only 1 hit is recorded.

Hypothesis: When you click on the link the browser does a GET.
When it starts getting stuff back it decides yes indeedy it is a PDF=20
and it needs to open up Acrobat. Then Acrobat does its own GET
of the data. That's why you only get one hit if you close Acrobat=20
immediately.

I assume this is Inertnet Exploiter at work - I wonder
if other browsers operate in the same way.

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