[imp] Composition and PDF attachments

[cjdl01]

Quoting Simon Brereton <simon.brereton at buongiorno.com>:

> On 30 November 2011 17:28, Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org> wrote:
>> Quoting cjdl01 <cjdl01 at brokensolstice.com>:
>>
>>> Quoting Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org>:
>>>
>>>> Quoting cjdl01 <cjdl01 at brokensolstice.com>:
>>>>
>>>>> I'm using Imp 5.0.15 with Horde 4.0.12.
>>>>>
>>>>> I am a linux guy, so I do 99% of my work on linux boxes.  As part of my
>>>>> work, I send a lot of invoices out to customers in pdf format.
>>>>>
>>>>> I am using Mozilla firefox 7.0.1, and Adobe Reader 9.4.2 with the
>>>>> firefox plugin on a gentoo box current as of yesterday.  It works fine
>>>>> normally, but for some reason, when attaching a PDF to an email  
>>>>> and clicking
>>>>> on the link (name of the attachment) to verify the document, it  
>>>>> always opens
>>>>> up a blank, white window.  There is a very long, ugly URL in the  
>>>>> address bar
>>>>> of that window (probably going to a hashed temp file), but  
>>>>> nothing renders.
>>>>>
>>>>> Clicking the attachment name link does not even offer me to download or
>>>>> open in another program, it just opens that blank window.
>>>>>
>>>>> This is going to slow my workflow down something fierce.  Is there
>>>>> anything I can do to fix this?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I can verify that this works fine for me.  There was a bug related to
>>>> this, but it was fixed for 5.0.15.
>>>>
>>>> commit e08081438cb1a09638897cabd1e46fb3e1120e59
>>>> Author: Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org>
>>>> Date:   Mon Oct 31 22:43:50 2011 -0600
>>>>
>>>>   Fix intermittent attachment loss when composing messages.
>>>>
>>>>   Fixed by implementing Serializable for IMP_Compose.
>>>>
>>>>   In the server access when attaching a file, the Horde_Mime_Part
>>>> contains
>>>>   the data of the attachment, stored in a stream.  When saving the
>>>>   IMP_Compose object to the session, this part was being serialized with
>>>>   the entire contents of the data into the part.  Not good for session
>>>>   sizes, and this data was periodically being lost.  We already have the
>>>>   attachment data stored (either in VFS or filesystem), so we don't need
>>>>   this data to be stored in the MIME Part - scrub it before serializing.
>>>>
>>>>   For the record, the way to reproduce:
>>>>
>>>>   1. Use dynamic view
>>>>   2. Open compose screen
>>>>   3. Attach a file
>>>>   4. Insert at least one character in body (to trigger auto-save draft)
>>>>   5. Wait for an auto-save draft
>>>>   6. Try to view contents of attachment - error will be thrown.
>>>>
>>>> michael
>>>
>>>
>>> It looks like firefox 8 just hit portage today, so I installed that, and
>>> re-tested.  It is still doing the same thing.  I logged into a windows box
>>> with FF8, and it works as expected.  So it seems to be related  
>>> just to linux
>>> FF.  Are you using a Linux Desktop with FF8, Michael?
>>>
>>> I don't think that this is necessarily a horde bug (it probably has more
>>> to do with the linux port of FF), but if there is anything I can do to get
>>> this working it would be of great help.
>>
>>
>> Right now I am using FF9 on Win7.
>>
>> But the PDF plugin is known to be wonky at times on all platforms, at least
>> for me.  I can load a PDF and nothing will happen - then I hit refresh and
>> it will instantly load.  That's sort of what your issue feels like.
>
>
> Unless I'm missing something the OP is on 4.0.12 and Michael stated
> this was fixed in 4.0.15.  Perhaps a Horde/IMP upgraded is necessary
> before continuing?
>
> Simon

Hi simon,

He said: "...but it was fixed for 5.0.15", which refers to Imp, which  
is most current.  I'm current on all horde apps as of today.  I don't  
think this bug is the same thing I'm viewing anyway, since it seems to  
apply only to Linux FF/Acroread.

I have tried every setting regarding pdfs on firefox that I can think  
of, tried switching to okular, tried setting it to open PDF files with  
the acroread program (not the plugin), I even set it to "Save File"...  
nothing works. I get that blank screen every time.

There is something very different about that link.  Every other pdf on  
the web works (an any of the configs I mentioned), but not this horde  
link.  There is something different going on with it, I cannot even  
right click it and choose "save link location" like a normal link.



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