My initial testing was with Firefox running on Solaris 10. I just tested with
Firefox 3.6.8 on Windows XP and got the same behavior. One difference is that
windows did not try to name it a .exe file it instead just called it a random
name with the .part extension. When I attempted to use Internet Explorer 7 I
did not reveive the prompt to save the file but instead got a web page that had
(5 square boxes to represent binary data).
Any idea what this data is that is being sent to me? I also ran a snoop from
the system running tomcat and was able to confirm that Tomcat did send the 7
bytes of data.
-Original Message-
From: André W
Sent: Monday, August 16, 2010 2:18 PM
To: Tomcat Users List
Subject: EXTERNAL: Re: Random file generation
Miller, Kevin R wrote:
> I am running Tomcat 6.0.26 on a Solaris 10 system. The Tomcat server is
> configured to listen to HTTPS communications on port 8443. When browsing to
> the Tomcat server remotely using the following syntax everything works as
> expected:
> https://10.10.10.10:8443/
>
> If however we accidentally leave out the "s" in https like this:
> http://10.10.10.10:8443/
>
> The Tomcat server responds with a 7 byte .exe file to download. Each time we
> make the request again it generates a new .exe file with a different name
> (cd64dni2.exe or z0v8671g.exe for example). The exe fail fails to execute on
> a windows system. The contents of all of the exe files are exactly the same
> (binary data)
>
> If I run an od on the file I get the following:
> $od cd64dni2.exe
> 000 001425 01 001002 12
> 007
>
>
> Can anyone explain what this file is and why it is getting generated?
>
Not before we are sure that it is really being generated.
Which browser are you using, and have you tried another one to check if the
symptoms are
the same ?
Additionally, get a browser plugin such as Fiddler2 (for IE) or HttpFox (for
Firefox),
activate the plugin, then look at what your browser is *really* receiving from
the server.
Purpose :
Some versions of IE have a habit of "second-guessing" the server (which it
should not be
doing according to the HTTP RFC), and deciding itself that what the server
sends back is
this or that, even when the server says otherwise.
You will want to make sure that your Tomcat is really sending back this
"thing", and that
it is not just the browser saying that it is this thing.
Note that the plugins above are invaluable tools to quickly diagnose
browser/server
conversation issues, so you will not lose your time downloading and installing
one of them
anway.
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