Hi George Thanks a lot for your insights! I will definitely look into that.
I found a Microsoft knowledge base article that can fix the bug in IE. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/323308 I tested and it seems to work but is not easy to roll-out. Also impractical for off-site users. I am thinking of putting a disclaimer on our homepage and listing preferred browsers. -----Original Message----- From: George S Kozak [mailto:g...@cornell.edu] Sent: 01 December 2011 04:48 PM To: Swanepoel, Barrie; dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [Dspace-tech] pdf over https in ie8 Barrie: There is a similar problem with older versions of Firefox (I don't recall which releases, but it crosses http and https) and PDFs that are greater than 5MB. That's something that we encountered at Cornell University. One thing you may want to consider is setting the "Content Inline Disposition Threshold" in the dspace.cfg to force the users to download the bitstream instead of viewing it inline. That wouldn't fix your problem, but at least the content would be available to anyone no matter what browser they are using. At Cornell University we have set this value to: webui.content_disposition_threshold = 5000000 xmlui.content_disposition_threshold = 5000000 so that anyone trying to view a PDF greater than 5MB gets a message asking them if they want to view the item or download it. You could set that number lower to handle all your PDFs. I know that's not a perfect situation, but it could give you a temporary workaround until some better solution comes up. Best wishes George Kozak Digital Library Specialist Cornell University Library Information Technologies (CUL-IT) 501 Olin Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 607-255-8924 -----Original Message----- From: barries [mailto:barr...@uj.ac.za] Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2011 12:15 AM To: dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Dspace-tech] pdf over https in ie8 I dont seem to be getting any feedback. I presume nobody has experienced this yet? -- View this message in context: http://dspace.2283337.n4.nabble.com/pdf-over-https-in-ie8-tp4106520p4126994.html Sent from the DSpace - Tech mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech ________________________________ This email and all contents are subject to the following disclaimer: http://disclaimer.uj.ac.za ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
