[BlueOnyx:06163] Re: generated pdfs - https internet explorer

Matthew Komar mkomar at serverrack.net
Tue Dec 21 17:16:22 -05 2010


Nah, it is some IE *CRAZY*.

IE refuses to cache anything coming in over SSL. When you launch an 
external app to open a file downloaded via IE, IE passes on the path to 
the cached copy. In this case, the cached copy doesn't exist.

It's crazy, but there are workarounds.

On 12/21/2010 5:02 PM, Taco Scargo wrote:
> I suspect your script is redirecting and IE does not like the redirect.
> Can you share an example url, so I could try ?
> What pdf generator are you using ?
>
> With regards,
>
> Taco Scargo
> taco at blueonyx.it
>
>
> On 21 dec 2010, at 12:13, Gerald Waugh wrote:
>
>> We have an SSL site with an application that generates PDF files which
>> the customer can download/display in browser. Working flawlessly in both
>> Firefox and Safair.
>>
>> Under Internet Explorer we get https errors. If we call the application
>> with http (not https) it works. But call with https and we get error
>> messages like “The file is currently unavailable or cannot be found.
>> Please try again later.” and “The file could not be stored in cache”.
>>
>> We tired some of the things found googling and found many postings,
>> like;
>>   header(‘Cache-Control: maxage=3600′);
>>   header(‘Pragma: public’);
>> but no joy,
>> does anyone have experience with this IE problem?
>>
>> -- 
>> Gerald
>>
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