Re: reading pdf/html from ifs send via cgidev2 -- RPG400-L

I'm not very well versed in how cgidev2 works (just played briefly
with it) but....

If you can already create the PDF and can give it a unique name via
the CGI program, the program can tell the browser to open the pdf in a
separate window by pushing the following code back to the browser via
std out - (this is the only reply the browser receives from the CGI
report request):

C                   eval      OutStr = 'Content-Type:  Text/HTML' +
C                              $CrLf + 'Pragma: no-cache'         +
C                              $CrLf + 'Expires: 0'               +
C                              $CrLf + 'Cache-Control: no-cache'  +
C                              $CrLf + $CrLf                      +
C                              '<html><script language=JavaScript>' +
C                              $CrLf +
C                              'var pdfWindow = window.open("' +
C                              %trim(PDFPATH) + ",'         +
C                              '"pdfWindow","scrollbars,resizable,' +
C                              'width=750,height=540");'+ $CrLf     +
C                              'pdfWindow;'             + $CrLf     +
C                              'pdfWindow.moveTo(3,3);' + $CrLf     +
C                              'history.back();'       + $CrLf     +
C                              '</script></html>'
C                   exsr      $APIStdOut

- PDFPATH is the webserver defined path to the IFS location and file
name.  example:

/webdirectory/pdfs/mypdffilename.pdf

the code will open a new window, and the pdf extension tells the
browser to open adobe reader and download the file.

after the new window is displayed, the original browser will return -
using history.back() - to the page that requested the report.

hope this helps a little.

On 12/28/06, Jim Horn <jimh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

To make a long story short, we will be converting an old reporting system to
use cgidev2 to

Request parameters from the user via a browser
create pdf/html reports in the IFS based on browser requests
retrieve the reports and send them back to the requesting browser.
would prefer not to send a link.

Need some assistance on the retrieve from the ifs and send back vis cgi
part.

Any examples of doing this out there?

Thanks

Jim Horn

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