Re: AW: [users@httpd] virtualhost with file

Mads Rosendahl <mads@xxxxxxxxxxx> · Fri, 02 Sep 2005 15:23:47 +0200

There are so many html2pdf converters out there Eoghan, there must be at 

least one that can do

it the other way around :)

eoghan wrote:

Mads Rosendahl wrote:

That would be my preferred solution as well.

Or simply specify the file as default-document for the site/folder 

with DirectoryIndex?

I never use "Options Indexes" !!! I don't want to allow directory 

browsing, unless needed in special

cases. For security reasons.

By why would you want to do it this way to begin with? It is not 

common to have a pdf-file as default

document. You will only have problems with it, and confused users. 

And you can't specify HTML meta

headers such as title, keywords, author and so on.

Just some thoughts:

When you send non-html content to users, the response header 

Content-Type is used by the client

to determine what to do with it, in this case "Content-Type: 

application/pdf". Apache uses the filename

suffix to determine mime-type, as specified in /etc/mime.types in 

linux. Will apache return the correct

Content-Type header when the requested resource is a folder? Just a 

thought.... Otherwise the browser

will get really confused.

Thanks for the comments. I realise this isnt a good thing to do, but 

Im just helping someone out... they had given a url to many users for 

a guidebook... The people who gave the link (printed in a document) 

dont think of these things. I have suggested using php header() but 

also noted that this will require people have a plugin so the page 

actually opens... Im surprised that they didnt actually use a html 

template for this information, since they give a web address for it, 

but there you go :)

Thanks again for the comments!
Eoghan

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