Hi,

--- Michael Sallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Chris,
> I have been trying to do the same thing (for over a year now), and
> I had
> come to the conclusion that it's a problem with IE (I've only tried
> it
> through Jetspeed, though).
> In trying to research the problem, I've run across a lot of similar
> problems which led me to that conclusion (problems with IE/PDF,
> Content
> headers vs. file extensions, problems with IE and https). Never the
> exact same problem, but similar.
> I finally resorted to adding a check-box to my page that would
> force IE
> to download the file, instead of trying to display it.

Could you provide some more detail on this solution, this seems like
it might be my best option...

> I'm sure there's a way to make it work correctly, I just got tired
> of
> fighting it.
> If you do figure it out, let me know :-)

I found out last night that I had the IE Security option "Do not save
encrypted pages to disk" switched off - which I don't think is the
default.  This seemed to allow the access to work in some cases. 
Turning this on meant that even my standalone servlet no longer
worked....

Thanks,
Chris

> 
> Mike
> 
> Chris Kimpton wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > This is probably a problem with my code, but just in case...
> > 
> > I have a turbine screen (extends RawScreen) that I use to return
> > documents, eg PDFs.
> > 
> > The screen just connects to a document server and reads in the
> bytes
> > and writes them out to the servlet response.  This works fine for
> > normal/non-secure/port 80/http connections.
> > 
> > ....but when I make tomcat run the portlet as a secure site,
> using
> > ssl, then IE gets an error downloading the document.  The rest of
> the
> > portlet seems to work fine through https.
> > 
> > Also, if I run the screen outside of jetspeed, just through
> turbine
> > with https - that also works too...
> > 
> > Also, if I use Opera to get the https document - it seems to be
> ok
> > too.
> > 
> > So, I guess (?) that there is something different with the
> headers
> > under Jetspeed - since the content seems ok with Opera.  This is
> the
> > line I am currently pursuing...
> > 
> > Anyone had anything similar - recognise a stupid mistake?
> > 
> > TIA,
> > Chris
> > 
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