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August 10, 2011 at 9:21 am #142
Sinuce
ParticipantHi Michael,
I just bought a copy of your EasyFolderListing Pro Plugin and it’s really brilliant.
However, I’ve got an issue when “Link To Files” is set to “Yes” and I left-click a PDF-file-link in table display method.
The file then downloads instantly and results in a 1 KB corrupted PDF-file.
When “Link To Files” is set to “No” and I use right-click -> “save as…”, the PDF-file downloads correctly.
I’m using Google Chrome btw.
Can you help me?
Best regards,
Asger
August 10, 2011 at 12:44 pm #1215Michael Gilkes
Keymaster@Sinuce. Thanks for using my software, and for posting your issue. That is very interesting. I am not sure what would cause that. However, please read the following topic and try what I suggest. let me know if it works:
http://support.michaelgilkes.com/topic/file-attachment-with-html
August 10, 2011 at 1:47 pm #1216Sinuce
ParticipantThank you for the fast response =)
I’ve followed your link and I’m currently trying to figure out how to force downloads, but it seems to be quite an elaborate process.
Currently, I’m stuck trying to figure out where to find your mentioned “download.php” file and alter it.
August 10, 2011 at 2:04 pm #1217Michael Gilkes
Keymaster@Sinuce. No Problem. It’s actually not too difficult. download.php can be found in plugins/content/easyfolderlistingpro/
When you find it, just open it in any simple text editor, like notepad, notepad++, text wrangler, and the like. Then change “octet-stream” to “force-download”.
Let me know how it works out.
August 11, 2011 at 11:19 am #1218Sinuce
Participant@michaelgilkes That makes sense. I was looking in my template folder and pretty much everywhere else than in the easyfolderlistingpro folder.
I changed “octet-stream” to “force-download”. In the plugin I’ve set “Link To Files” to [Yes], “Link Target” to [_blank] and “Download Target” to [Link (overrides…)].
Here’s the link to the site with your plugin: http://scan-in.dk/index.php/en/industrial-dosing/downloads
When using “right-click -> Save as…” the PDF download works fine. But when left-clicking it still results in a corrupt downloaded file.
August 18, 2011 at 2:39 pm #1219Michael Gilkes
Keymaster@Sinuse. Sorry for taking so long to reply. Have a look at this post and let me know if it solves your problem: http://support.michaelgilkes.com/topic/corrupted-files#post-374
August 22, 2011 at 1:27 pm #1220Sinuce
Participant@michaelgilkes, wow that looks complicated. For now I’ll have to let visitors on my site live with right-clicking and choosing “save as…”.
I’ll look into getting the force-download thing to work in the future.
Thank you for your help 🙂
October 4, 2011 at 2:57 pm #1221czmarco
ParticipantHi Michael,
sorry, today, I downloaded and installed your Easy folder listing pro, and I have the same problem.
If I select the link to the PDF-file the download is corrupted (0 byte), if I use right-click -> “save as…”, the PDF-file downloads correctly.
Can you help me?
Best regards,
Marco
October 4, 2011 at 3:57 pm #1222Michael Gilkes
Keymaster@czmarco. Thanks for posting. Which browsers have you tried it with? Do you have the same problem with different browsers? Also, what server are you running?
Oh, btw, did you check the link that I posted above?
Some people have a similar problem in general, even when not using Joomla or my plugin. There is no set way to solve this so far. So, the more information I get about others with the same problem, the quicker I’ll be able to find a solution. So far, I haven’t been able to replicate the problem on my end, so it’s a little harder to solve. So, I have to depend on what others explain to me.
Hope this helps.
October 5, 2011 at 6:33 am #1223czmarco
ParticipantHi Michael, this morning I solved the problem.
I set the download target field to “None” and now it’s work corectly.
We use joomla 1.6 on SLES 11 server and we use firefox on linux client and IE 6-7-8 on Windows client
Thank you for your support.
bye
November 12, 2011 at 1:30 pm #1224janhan
ParticipantHi,
had the same problem with corrupt pdf downloads and solved it this way.
In the file “helper.php” I added the following two lines just above the “echo” statement.
$thepath = parse_url($fullpath);
$fullpath = ‘/home/MY_DOMAIN/public_html’.$thepath;
You would of course have to use your real domain name instead of “MY_DOMAIN” and also modify the filepath as needed.
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