Downloading invoices (PDF) does not complete.

Question

Hi,

We have a magento commerce site running on an IIS 6.0 server with PHP 5.2.11 running magento.

Whenever user tries to use the print to download pdf to their computer from the admin panel the download does not complete. I can see that the full file is downloaded to the computer but the browser still keeps on saying it is downloading. This means the file gets save with a .part in the end and users cant open the file as pdf. If i remove .part extension created by firefox then i can view the pdf correctly. This means the data is sent to the browser from server in full but download does not terminate.

See headers below on response while starting to download the pdf

HTTP/1.x 200 OK
Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Pragma: public
Content-Length: 1456781
Content-Type: application/pdf
Content-Encoding: gzip
Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
Last-Modified: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:23:37 +0000
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET, PHP/5.2.11
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=invoice2009-12-18_10-23-37.pdf
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:23:37 GMT

I guess it is something to do with not closing the connection after sending the whole file through? Please help!

Thanks.

Answer 1

Have you tried explicitly calling exit; after you output the pdf data. Sounds like an IIS thing.