File does not begin with %pdf-

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Dan H.

Greetings,
We are in a small LAN. We have been using another company's web app to
generate reports (.php) which would open a PDF in a browser. this worked up
until Monday.
Now when trying to generate report it produces the following error File does
not begin with '%pdf-'.
Stay with me and I will explain why this issue is in XP. So I tried from a
different computer, different versions of Acrobat Reader(ver. 5-8, 8 is the
current), different web browsers (IE, Firefox, Opera, Netscape). I even set
the options in Acrobat so that the file will download. so I download the
file, open it up and same error message.
I called the host of the web server and they said they were having no
issues.
Well we have a Windows 2000 server on the LAN, long story short I tried to
do this from the server and it views the PDF with no problem.
The only updates between Friday and Monday i see is for Defender so I
uninstalled Defender but still have the issue. Nothing has changed on the
network.
Any advice would be appreciated.
 
Thanks for your reply Alan.
I did find the fix. Turns out a Security update for IE was the culprit
(KB944533).
I guess what really threw me off though was the fact that other browsers
were producing the same error.
I figured I'd post the fix just incase it is ever needed.

Thanks again.
 
Thanks for  your reply Alan.
I did find the fix.  Turns out a Security update for IE was the culprit
(KB944533).
I guess what really threw me off though was the fact that other browsers
were producing the same error.
I figured I'd post the fix just incase it is ever needed.

Thanks again.









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Hi Dan

We are facing the same problem here -- what is the resolution that you
found .. would really appreciate if you can share that.
 
Hi,
It turned out to be an update for us so you could try to see if that is the
same issue on your side. In add/remove programs I uninstalled Security
Update KB944533 That fixed the problem.

Thanks for your reply Alan.
I did find the fix. Turns out a Security update for IE was the culprit
(KB944533).
I guess what really threw me off though was the fact that other browsers
were producing the same error.
I figured I'd post the fix just incase it is ever needed.

Thanks again.









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Hi Dan

We are facing the same problem here -- what is the resolution that you
found .. would really appreciate if you can share that.
 
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