The company I work for is using a servlet to log requests for documents on our
site. The way this works is that the link for the document actually goes
through a servlet I wrote, which logs the request and issues a redirect to the
"real" url. This has been working fine, but recently we discovered a serious
bug involving Internet Explorer and redirects to .pdf files. If you click on
the url which goes through the servlet, the browser hangs for a bit, and then
finally returns "unable to find object to handle request".
Note: This works FINE with all other browsers we've tested.
To test this, I wrote a very simple servlet which only issues a redirect to a
pdf file we host, and it fails too. We suspect this is something related to
mime-types, and hence I tried setting the mime-type to "application/pdf" before
issuing the redirect in the servlet above, but it had no effect and ellicited
the same behaviour. Is the <gasp> an IE bug? Does anyone know of a workaround?
Platform:
ApacheJServ 1.1.1, ibm jdk 1.18 for Linux, JSDK2.0
Can anyone shed some light on this?
Thanks much,
-Tim
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