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 = 500 xmlui.content_disposition_threshold = 500 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 -- 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
Re: [Dspace-tech] pdf over https in ie8
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 = 500 xmlui.content_disposition_threshold = 500 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
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
[Dspace-tech] pdf over https in ie8
Hi list We have just upgraded to dspace 1.7.2. Also we are running on Redhat 6 ES. Everything is fine and actually works well. But... We also installed an ssl certificate from Thawte in order to have secure connections. This works well but... Users with Windows xp and ie8 cannot open the pdf's over this secure connection. It only provides an empty page. This seems to be a well-known issue with ie8 and pdf over https. I have tried some of the solutions proposed on for instance the pdf forums, but they don't work. Installing firefox solves the issue but is not possible for all user over the world. ( I am thinking of placing a disclaimer on our site saying that we only support firefox, opera , but not ie8. Scary...) Has anyone experienced this? Any quick fixes that work for ie8? I searched the dspace tech forum but could not find anything specific from the dspace community. Thanks in advance. Barrie Swanepoel Systems Administrator University of Johannesburg Library and Information Centre PO Box 524 Auckland Park Johannesburg Republic of South Africa Tel: +27 11 559 2347 Cell: 082 565 7743 [Description: UJ_emailer_01] This email and all contents are subject to the following disclaimer: http://disclaimer.uj.ac.za inline: image001.jpg-- 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
