Re: [WebDNA] Retrieving a PDF from an email
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It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 101456
interpreted = N
texte = Steve I think that is where the problem is. I am going to work on Ken's suggestion, I have found a couple of attachment downloaders that may do the trick for me. Pretty disappointed that the WebDNA route will not work for me :( Regards Stuart Tremain IDFK Web Developments AUSTRALIA webdna@idfk.com.au On 19/11/2008, at 2:38 AM, Steve Craig wrote: > Don't know if it's relevant to your situation as I haven't really > been paying attention but, I had problems trying to do an XOR thing > a while back and I always found that WebDNA choked whenever it came > up against a null character. Neither the decrypt or encode things > seemed to be able to get past them. May be that's the problem, I > never did get a workaround.. > > Cheers > PS Maybe it's got nothing whatsoever to do with the topic, if so > apologies for wasting this precious bandwidth!! > ======================================== > Steve Craig - Asylum Interactive Ltd > Tel +44 1330 860550 Fax +44 1330 860880 > ======================================== > http://www.asylumweb.com > Email: steve@asylumweb.com > Skype: s.craig - iChat: steve.craig > ======================================== > > > > > On 18 Nov 2008, at 14:33, Govinda wrote: > >> >> On Nov 18, 2008, at 12:22 AM, Kenneth Grome wrote: >> >>> The problem I'm imagining with decrypt in your case is that >>> a .pdf file might contain a string of characters that looks >>> like it needs to be decrypted when in reality that string >>> of characters should not be decrypted ... kind of like when >>> my original text has a string such as %20 in it but unurl >>> changes this string into a space character instead of >>> leaving it as %20. >> >> >> That sounds like we aren't sure what pdfs are made of. Are they >> actually encoded just in certain parts of the file? I never looked >> into what makes up a pdf... >> Stuart, you must have tried dealing with attachments that are other >> file types to see how that compares? >> --------------------------------------------------------- >> This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to >> the mailing list
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Steve I think that is where the problem is. I am going to work on Ken's suggestion, I have found a couple of attachment downloaders that may do the trick for me. Pretty disappointed that the WebDNA route will not work for me :( Regards Stuart Tremain IDFK Web Developments AUSTRALIA webdna@idfk.com.au On 19/11/2008, at 2:38 AM, Steve Craig wrote: > Don't know if it's relevant to your situation as I haven't really > been paying attention but, I had problems trying to do an XOR thing > a while back and I always found that WebDNA choked whenever it came > up against a null character. Neither the decrypt or encode things > seemed to be able to get past them. May be that's the problem, I > never did get a workaround.. > > Cheers > PS Maybe it's got nothing whatsoever to do with the topic, if so > apologies for wasting this precious bandwidth!! > ======================================== > Steve Craig - Asylum Interactive Ltd > Tel +44 1330 860550 Fax +44 1330 860880 > ======================================== > http://www.asylumweb.com > Email: steve@asylumweb.com > Skype: s.craig - iChat: steve.craig > ======================================== > > > > > On 18 Nov 2008, at 14:33, Govinda wrote: > >> >> On Nov 18, 2008, at 12:22 AM, Kenneth Grome wrote: >> >>> The problem I'm imagining with decrypt in your case is that >>> a .pdf file might contain a string of characters that looks >>> like it needs to be decrypted when in reality that string >>> of characters should not be decrypted ... kind of like when >>> my original text has a string such as %20 in it but unurl >>> changes this string into a space character instead of >>> leaving it as %20. >> >> >> That sounds like we aren't sure what pdfs are made of. Are they >> actually encoded just in certain parts of the file? I never looked >> into what makes up a pdf... >> Stuart, you must have tried dealing with attachments that are other >> file types to see how that compares? >> --------------------------------------------------------- >> This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to >> the mailing list . >> To unsubscribe, E-mail to: >> archives: http://mail.webdna.us/list/talk@webdna.us >> old archives: http://dev.webdna.us/TalkListArchive/ > > > --------------------------------------------------------- > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list . > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > archives: http://mail.webdna.us/list/talk@webdna.us > old archives: http://dev.webdna.us/TalkListArchive/
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