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Saving an embedded editable PDF on the server.

Grihan
Registered: Oct 3 2011
Posts: 3
Answered

Hello,
 
I have scenario where the user should fill a pdf form embedded in an html page, and then the filled form should be saved on the server.
The form is an on the fly generated xfa form that is stored on the server cache and then embedded in an html page using the object tag.
The problem is i don't know how to make the user updates apply on the server, or any other way to get the result form as a file to write on my server.
Is there a way to do it?
 
Thanks in advance,
Grihan.

UVSAR
Expert
Registered: Oct 29 2008
Posts: 1357
Accepted Answer
You can't - HTTP is not intended to allow clients to write to the server.

Instead, you will need to set your PDF form to submit the form data (in FDF) to a script on your server, which can receive the data and do something to store it. The server has to be the process which writes the data to disk or to a database, not the PDF.
Grihan
Registered: Oct 3 2011
Posts: 3
Thanks for your answer.

The solution worked, and i managed to store the file.

Best regards,
Grihan.