It turns out that IE can't correctly access Office documents from a secure
site! This problem does not exist in Firefox, Opera, or Safari. The work
around is that the cache must be enabled for that request. Adding set cache
control("Cache-Control: max-age=120, must-revalidate") just before the set
content type("application/vnd.ms-excel") fixed the problem. The following
Microsoft knowledgebase article documents the problem and the solution.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/316431
Thanks,
Mike
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
> Michael Bond
> Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 9:43 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Active4d-dev] HTTPS in HTTP out
>
> 2009/9/16 Mike Vogt <[email protected]>
>
> > Hi all,
> > This might not be an Active4D question, but I'll ask
> anyway. I have a
> > fuseaction that set content type("application/vnd.ms-excel") that
> > worked great, asking the browser user if they wanted to
> open in excel, etc.
> > However, last night, we mad the entire site secure, so all urls are
> > forced to https if they are http, using Apache rewrite in
> from of 4D
> > Server (we've always used Apache rewrite, just not for
> https). Now,
> > all the excel links give an error saying 'Could not open
> 'https://www.willsub.com/index...
> > My question is, is there a response header or other info I
> can set so
> > that the response is set back to http from https? Is there
> any other
> > way to look at this problem?
> >
> > TIA,
> > Sincerely,
> > Mike Vogt
> > Willsub Technical Support
> >
> > I'll be honest I don't really understand the problem but if
> you need a
> secure request to be "transformed" under a certain rule set
> to a standard non-secure then you could simply use a Redirect
> from within Apache or Active4D to the non-secure pages with
> the original request parameters attached to the Redirect.
>
> Michael Bond
>
> Michael
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