We've had the issue before with WAS running a java app. I believe it's an issue with cache. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/323308
On Jan 14, 9:28 am, "C. Dagnon" <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote: > Quirky stuff here, > > The current setup works fine for Firefox 3.6 and IE 8 but balks on > earlier IEs. The files are PDFs, .doc files, and other binaries but up > to several MB: > > A. the users' problem is a minor IE7 quirk: it works to download files > from clicking links, but if you use the URL instead then the browser > stops after a fraction of a second. Refreshing or hitting Return again > downloads it fine. > > B. the major problem is when the download progress dialog pops up but > then gives the "Internet Explorer can not download XYZ from (website)" > error box. This is what we see when we try testing - so 'major' is that > we cannot directly reproduce it. > > We've tried combing the net and tried various different headers for the > last day, but even Microsoft seems conflicted about which HTTP Headers > should be used when, and few are specifically talking about SSL (but > MS's KB says SSL headers are treated differently)... > > One thing that worries me is that Cache-Control, Pragma, and a couple > others never show up in Firefox's LiveHTTPHeaders when we or send_file > set them. I'm only certain they're set because RSpec tests verify them. > > While it seems that checking IE's internet option "Do not save encrypted > documents..." lets the downloading happen for at least some of the > severe errors (B), that seems like an odd work-around instead of a > global solution. > > 1) Has anyone experienced this problem? > > 2) What is the fix with HTTP Headers or send_file settings? > > Thanks! > > --- recent complete headers through Live HTTP Headers, supposedly with > Expire=-1 --- > HTTP/1.1 200 OK > > Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 21:59:00 GMT > > Server: Apache/2.2.3 (Red Hat) > > X-Powered-By: Phusion Passenger (mod_rails/mod_rack) 3.0.1 > > X-Runtime: 4 > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary > > Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="thefile.pdf" > > Status: 200 > > Content-Type: application/pdf > > Set-Cookie: ... > Vary: Accept-Encoding > > Last-Modified: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 22:03:46 GMT > > Content-Length:3962465 > > Connection: close > > -- > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
