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External Sources Not Working In Pdf Creation

 
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External Sources Not Working In Pdf Creation
ccrevling
post 13 Dec, 2007 - 10:31 AM
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Yesterday one of my clients sites ran out of its ssl cert so i purchased a new one. Now their website creates pdfs out of cold fusion. Well after i installed the new cert the pdf will not accept outside sources like imgs and stylesheets. Why is this happening?
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post 13 Dec, 2007 - 12:22 PM
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I'm not an expert on SSLs but it sounds like it could be to do with the address of the images or style sheets referenced in the document creating the PDF.

For example, when you go to a secure site and get the popup that says "Some items on this page are not secure, would you like to display the non-secure items?", this is usually because the site URL is secure (https) and the image source tag is not.

What I'm getting at is this, make sure the tags displaying images or referencing style sheets are pointing to the secure server address...

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<img src="https://www.yourserver.com/image.jpg">


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<img src="http://www.yourserver.com/image.jpg">


Hope that helps...
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post 13 Dec, 2007 - 03:18 PM
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At work, we haven't had much luck with SSL images in PDF's. We have a seperate non-https server we use to host the images on.
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post 13 Dec, 2007 - 03:26 PM
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I work with Chris and have ran into this problem a lot, any exporting using cfdocumentitem HATES working with SSL. the easiest and only reliable solution I have found is to put all images on a non-secure site and link the images directly. this was especially a pain as we do intranet development, so all of my header images and what not have to be placed on the only non-SSL site we have, a public facing server.
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ccrevling
post 13 Dec, 2007 - 04:20 PM
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Well thanks guys. I had already done that before any one here had posted back. LOL so know i know for sure thats what we need to do. (what i did i told them was a "temporary fix" unitl i can figure out the real problem) So now i get a new server YAY! haha thanks again
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