[Zope] IE, SSL and redirect...

Magnus Heino magnus.heino@pleon.sigma.se
Wed, 28 Aug 2002 14:59:42 +0200


> > 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 resul=
ts
> 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.

Thanks for the hint.

It was a IE bug,=20
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=3Dkb;en-us;q323308

No fix available... so I had to remove the no-cache header.

/Magnus

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  /Magnus Heino