Strange thing with creation of a file on the fly

[Jeremy Reynolds-2]

I'm working with FedEx to generate labels using XML.  The label is
returned to me in the form of an "encrypted" string.  If I decrypt the
string and create a file directly off the string, it creates it just
fine.


[var: 'PDF_File'=(Decode_Base64: $extracted_label)]
[File_Serve: $PDF_File, -type='application/pdf', -File='filename.pdf',
-disposition='Inline']


However, if I were to take the $PDF_File value and store it in a
FileMaker field... come back to it later, retried the value and then
try to generate a file off of it, it fails to create it correctly and
says the file is corrupted.  I'm guessing some special character
(possibly the EOF character???) gets lost when it passes through the
FileMaker field??  Anybody have any insight or experience into this
kind of problem??

Jeremy

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[bilcorry]

Jeremy Reynolds wrote on 6/30/2009 1:51 PM:

> I'm working with FedEx to generate labels using XML.  The label is
> returned to me in the form of an "encrypted" string.  If I decrypt the
> string and create a file directly off the string, it creates it just
> fine.
>
>
> [var: 'PDF_File'=(Decode_Base64: $extracted_label)]
> [File_Serve: $PDF_File, -type='application/pdf', -File='filename.pdf',
> -disposition='Inline']
>
>
> However, if I were to take the $PDF_File value and store it in a
> FileMaker field... come back to it later, retried the value and then
> try to generate a file off of it, it fails to create it correctly and
> says the file is corrupted.  I'm guessing some special character
> (possibly the EOF character???) gets lost when it passes through the
> FileMaker field??  Anybody have any insight or experience into this
> kind of problem??

Store the $extracted_label in Filemaker.  Since it's Base64 encoded, you won't have odd binary issues.  Then when you pull it out of Filemaker, use decode_base64 on it.


- Bil



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