I had almost forgotten about this one... On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 20:02, Benjamin Scott wrote: > On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, at 10:50pm, Kenneth E. Lussier wrote: > > When I pull up the pages in a browser via http, the pages are cached, and > > I can do things such as export them to spreadsheets, etc. However, if I > > pull the pages via https, the pages are cached, and therefore, I can't > > export them. > > I am assuming the second sentence was intended to read "the pages are NOT > cached".
Yes, I did mean that they are *NOT* cached. > > It doesn't matter what settings I try in the client. None of them cache > > https docs (ie, mozilla, NS, and Opera). > > Given the fact that these dynamically generated objects are cached when > using HTTP, it is not the dynamic nature of the objects which is throwing > things off. I doubt Apache's mod_ssl is over-riding the regular headers > (although I suppose it is possible). I'm not using mod_ssl, I'm using Apache-SSL. There's a difference. However, I seem to have found several things that point to a completely different problem. I tried using cache headers directly from the server config, but that didn't seem to work. But, I can honestly say that this can be written off as a Microsoft issue. What was happening was that IE was taking the dynamic content, and rather than passing the content off to Excel, it was passing the URL to Excel so that Excel could open it directly. The other browsers were passing the content itself to Excel. The problem turns out to be that Excel doesn't support importing of HTTPS data.... I should have known ;-) > That leaves only one thing: The user agent (i.e., the browser). I suspect > the browsers are deliberately not caching objects transfered using SSL, as a > security measure. It's both the user agent and the application that it is trying to hand it off to. I think that this is a good argument against heavily integrated applications all hooked into the OS. They just don't "Do The Right Thing"(TM). C-Ya, Kenny -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "In conclusion, please be wary where authority reigns" -- Warrior Soul Kenneth E. Lussier Sr. Systems Administrator Zuken, USA PGP KeyID CB254DD0 http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xCB254DD0 ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
