[reportlab-users] reportlab and modpython

[David Fraser]

We have had this problem before and solved it but I can't remember the 
solution.
However you may want to search the archives and try things like checking 
the extension of the request is .pdf and appending a .pdf if there is a 
query string:
http://localhost/path/to/file.pdf?arg1=val1&arg2=val2&dummyarg=.pdf
Then also make sure that the PDF file is returned as the correct content 
type

David

Hector Sanchez SanMartin wrote:

> Hello everybody,
>
>    I have to apologise because I was blaming reportlab and mod_python 
> thinking that there was a problem between them but actually I have 
> realised that it is not their fault; we were having very strange 
> behaviours when using mod_python and reportlab altogether but while 
> trying to write a small example to demonstrate it we noticed the 
> behaviour was even more strange than we thought and by chance we have 
> discovered that this strange behaviour only happens when the client 
> uses IE web browser..yes, I know it sounds very strange but it seems 
> to be like this although we have to investigate further. Actually the 
> strange behaviour appeared when we tried to output a PDF as IE seems 
> to senf twice an HTTP request, but eveything goes perfect if we 
> generate the PDF into a local file in the server.
>
>    Apologises again and sorry for the wasted time I could provoke.
>
>    Thanks a lot and congratulations for your very nice tool (we will 
> certainly use it for our project)
>
>
>
> David Fraser wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> We have previously run reportlab under mod_python without any 
>> significant problems ... however we are not currently doing it as we 
>> changed our reporting strategy...
>> just wanted to let you know it has been done successfully before
>>
>> David
>>
>> Hector Sanchez SanMartin wrote:
>>
>>>    Hello all,
>>>
>>>    First of all, I would like to thank you for your quick reply. I 
>>> have to apologise not to have replied before but I wasn't subscirbed 
>>> to the list and as you didn't reply to me directly I didn't realise 
>>> your replies till now.
>>>      About webware, thanks a lot for the info; I already know it and 
>>> it seems to be quite a good app server but our trouble is that all 
>>> our developement is already done under mod_python and for the moment 
>>> we are not planning to change it.
>>>
>>>    About mod_python, it is an Apache module which keeps the python 
>>> interpreter loaded into Apache so the performance is great. More 
>>> info and downloads about it can be found at 
>>> <http://www.modpython.org/>. We are trying now to write a simple 
>>> case where reportlab and mod_python are colliding (at the moment the 
>>> examples we have are quite coupled with our developement) so it's 
>>> easier for you to understand where the problem  comes from. I'll 
>>> post it as soon as possible.
>>>
>>>    Thanks again
>>>  
>>>
>>> Andy Robinson wrote:
>>>
>>>> That's really useful documentation, thanks very much!
>>>>
>>>> If anyone can post something similar for mod_python
>>>> that would be great...
>>>>
>>>> - Andy Robinson
>>>>
>>>>  
>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: reportlab-users-admin@reportlab.com
>>>>> [mailto:reportlab-users-admin@reportlab.com]On Behalf Of Christoph
>>>>> Zwerschke
>>>>> Sent: 23 February 2004 09:58
>>>>> To: reportlab-users@reportlab.com
>>>>> Subject: Re: [reportlab-users] reportlab and modpython
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>  
>>>>>
>>>>>>    We have done some tests and we are now having strange 
>>>>>> behaviour of
>>>>>> reportlab/mod_python.
>>>>>>     
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> This does not answer your question, but I just want to point to an
>>>>> alternative to mod_python called "Webware for Python"
>>>>> (http://webware.sourceforge.net). I am using the combination
>>>>> Apache/Webware/Reportlab/PostgreSQL and found they are playing 
>>>>> together very
>>>>> well. Webware is communicating with Apache using the WebKit adapter.
>>>>> Communication between Webware and ReportLab is documented here:
>>>>> http://webware.colorstudy.net/twiki/bin/view/Webware/PdfCreationWi
>>>>>   
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> thReportLab001
>>>>
>>>> Christoph Zwerschke
>>>>
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