Hi,

I use a script that requires everyone to login in prior to downloading any product information (PDF files) The script works fine in NS, however in IE it does not work on logging in.
The following is done on logging in:
- setting of two cookies (username, password)
- load the PDF file using the following code:


Though Acrobat Reader is started, only a white page is shown in IE.

If further links to PDF files are clicked, the same code is used to open them, yet no cookies are set.
In these cases the script works fine.

So, I suppose that the setting of the cookies might be the problem here.

The script uses a very old cookie library from worldwidemart.com (last modified 12/23/96).

Does anyone have a solution, so that the first PDF file is loaded correctly as well?

If you are setting cookies you can't then do a redirect as a redirect requires that no header is printed first.

Thanks for the quick reply.
I tried the line, but got the following error?


Is there something I did wrong?
(I inserted the code before the print "Location:..." instruction in the script.)

That was just an OO example using a cgi object, you needed to call:

my $IN = new CGI;

....first. Although my code was wrong which is why I removed it.

Using CGI objects did not work. So I have been checking various other ways.
Finally I found the following solution.

Instead of using

I have entered the following lines after setting the cookies


This works fine (tested on IE 5.0/6.0, NS 4.7/7.0).

If you've already set a header (done when setting cookie) then printing another should be printing:

Content-type: text/html\n\n

...into your page. When you set a cookie you don't need to print a header.