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Classic ASP: posting with content of PDF file to a .NET page

Answer 1

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Your best bet is probably the FS or DB considering the difficulties ASP.NET and ASP interaction. That's my "path of least resistance".

craigmoliver 2009-03-31 02:01:13

Answer 2

+1 A:

Somewhat of a hack, but...

Create a form in classic ASP with a field that you populate with the data from the PDF file. The action of the form would be the ASP.NET page. Something like:

<body onload="pdfsenderform.submit()">
    <form name="pdfsenderform" action="pdf.aspx" method="post">
       <input type="hidden" name="pdffiledata" value="<%...output your PDF data here...%>" />
   </form>
</body>

You might need to encode the binary PDF data prior to writing it to the form field (Base64 or something).

squillman 2009-04-19 03:00:44

I ended up doing it this way. It takes some extra bandwidth but least maintenance headache.

Haoest 2009-04-19 23:39:00

Ouch...so, instead of writing to disk you're round-tripping it to the client? I can't think of many scenarios where that would be faster....

Mark Brackett 2009-04-21 10:54:15

Yeah, never said it was pretty...

squillman 2009-04-22 03:38:32

Answer 3

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Just write it to disk, store the filename in a cookie or querystring, and Response.Redirect the user. It's likely to be "fast enough" and much easier than writing a least common denominator State Server accessible over TCP to both of them - which is the only in memory way of doing I can think of.

Mark Brackett 2009-04-19 03:37:14

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