Re: FN-FORUM: PHP/PDF problem

date posted 11th January 2004 15:11

> > 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
> > 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
> > immediately.

Proof indeed.

192.168.0.1 - - [09/Jan/2004:17:41:57 +0000] "GET /issues/311002.pdf
HTTP/1.1" 200 176517 "http://www.domainname.com/issues/311002.htm"
"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)"

192.168.0.1 - - [09/Jan/2004:17:42:00 +0000] "GET /issues/311002.pdf
HTTP/1.1" 200 176517 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1;
.NET CLR 1.1.4322)"