[Zope] IE, SSL and redirect...

[kosh@aesaeion.com]

On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, Magnus Heino wrote:

>
> I have a site setup, using https.
>
> I have a form, that when submitted redirects to a file, which is downloaded.
>
> This works using Mozilla, Netscape, curl and wget. IE fails with "The
> requested site is either unavailabe or cannot be found".
>
> The Location in the HTTP 302 redirect is absolute.

Go check the microsoft knowledge base IE can not redirect to a lot of
kinds of files and also can't do content-disposition well enough to do
that either. However I have not found any other browser that has that
limitation. What I have found that I had to use to get consistent results
was handing IE and page with a meta-refresh tag that told it to grab
another url in 0 seconds and then it works all the time.

With content-disposition IE behaves in two ways depending on if certain
patches are involved and giving IE a bad content type as suggested in the
microsoft knowledge base does not work on all patch versions.

Overall as a general comment I HATE THE IE HTTP implemenation since even
lynx does a better job!