Re: Send PDF to Browser

[Henrik Rützou <hr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Bradley

If you just store PDF's in a public directory everyone can read it and you
have no chance
to know when it has been read so it is very common that you serve PDF's by
using af
CGI program that even may have security build around it.

On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 2:08 PM, Bradley Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Why not just store the PDF in your web path in a different directory and
> offer a link to the PDF?  Why go through all the trouble of reading the PDF
> and outputting it?
>
> Brad
> www.bvstools.com
>
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 5:09 AM, Henrik Rützou <hr@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Hello Jan,
> >
> > If you generate the PDF file and send it in the same process there isn't
> > much
> > performance loss since the IFS file isn't written/paged to disk but
> resides
> > in
> > mainstorage - this is however only my own experience others may have
> > different
> > experiences.
> >
> > In general it takes more time to generate the spool-file that it takes to
> > send the
> > IFS file to the browser.
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 11:56 AM, Jan Grove Vejlstrup <jgv@xxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hello Henrik
> > >
> > > I wanted to optimize the performance. But I see, I have to go the
> > IFS-way.
> > > Thank you very much.
> > >
> > > Jan
> > >
> > >
> > > Am 16.06.2016 um 11:43 schrieb Henrik Rützou:
> > >
> > > > As far as I know you have to store the spool-file in PDF in the IFS
> > since
> > > > you
> > > > can't write spool files into a storage address.
> > > >
> > > > But what is the problem? You can just delete it after it is send to
> the
> > > > browser.
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 11:17 AM, Jan Grove Vejlstrup <jgv@xxxxxxxx>
> > > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hello
> > > > > I create a webservice that receives a document-ID as input and shall
> > > > > deliver a PDF of the document back to the consumer. I generate a
> > spooled
> > > > > file of the document and use the attributes wscst(*PDF) and tostmf of
> > the
> > > > > printer-file to convert the spooled file to a PDF and store it in the
> > > > > IFS.
> > > > > With my program I read the PDF from the IFS, put a appropriate header
> > > > > before it and use STDOUT to send it to the consumer.
> > > > >
> > > > > Is there a way to do this without having to store the PDF temporarily
> > in
> > > > > the IFS?
> > > > >
> > > > > Best regards
> > > > >
> > > > > Jan
> > > > >
> > > > >
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