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Topic: Re: Which protocols are supported by Acrobat?
Conf: (P-PDF) Mac Issues, Msg: 95818
From: d-b
Date: 9/5/2003 12:13 AM
On 9/4/2003 11:57:54 PM, LeonardR wrote:
>At 10:42 PM +1000 9/4/03,
>p-pdf-mac-issues Listmanager
>wrote:
>>Are there any other protocols than http that are supported for
>>direct downloading by Acrobat?
>
> https.
>
>Though in Acrobat 6, you can
>also use SOAP for
>communications
>(which does, admittedly sit on
>top of HTTP, but the idea is
>good!)
Does SOAP use the http://-prefix like WebDAV?
>>The reason I ask is that I want my proxyserver to change
>>http://domain.com/document.pdf I encounter while browsing the
web to
>>use another protocol (pdf://domain.com/document.pdf) - to
force the
>>browser to open them directly in Acrobat.
>>
>
>In that case, you don't need
>to do anything with Acrobat -
>just adjust your Internet
>Configurations in Mac OS.
>You can map any
>URL type/prefix to any
>application.
How do you avoid that Safari or Mozilla downloads the pdf to your
download directory? I don't want it cluttered with PDF:s I read only
once.
(I know MacIE can save downloaded files in different locations
depending on their type, but IE is on its way out)
