Comments on: 3 Ways to Serve PDF Files using Htaccess Cookies, Headers, Rewrites

By: Silver

Silver — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 19:13:13 +0000

Hi,
Do you know of anyway to drop a cookie or anything of that sort from a PDF file? Is it even possible?

Thanks!

By: Adam

Adam — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:43:49 +0000

Same in Chrome. Each mode just saves to the downloads folder.

By: rejetto

rejetto — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 15:38:30 +0000

thank you for this article! I was playing with cookies, and found no way to unescape the content of the cookie without using RewriteMap, which is not available in .htaccess files. With

RewriteMap unescape int:unescape

i would define my "unescape" function, but i can't because i only have .htaccess, and even if i could, my application would not be as self-contained and neat as it would be relying only an .htaccess Do you know of a name of a predefined Rewritemap so that i can unescape in my case? thanks

By: AskApache

AskApache — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 22:51:43 +0000

Well you might goto about:config in your location bar, but I know you can change how ff handles this by changing your settings.

By: mdgreenfield

mdgreenfield — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 22:05:29 +0000

Yup, I'm having problems with "download" mode in FF3. But I figured out what I needed. Thanks.

By: Justin Hartman

Justin Hartman — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:34:40 +0000

Aah that makes sense. So I assume there's no way to force or override this then?

By: AskApache

AskApache — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:28:30 +0000

Thanks for your comments Justin.. In FF3 (or any version of FF) your personal options of how you want FF to handle the download override these headers. After all, its the browser that receives these headers and determines how to handle the file.

By: Justin Hartman

Justin Hartman — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 08:20:26 +0000

Great tutorial but this doesn't work on FF3 or Safari on a Mac. In Safari you can view inline (safari supports this mode by default) and the download works as well. However, the Save As doesn't work.

In FF3 each of the options simply saves the file to your downloads folder.