In all places on our site where pdf, excel, word docs etc can be downloaded we have the following code:
final String userAgent = request.getHeader("user-agent"); if (response.containsHeader("Pragma") && userAgent!=null && userAgent.toUpperCase().indexOf("MSIE")>-1) { response.setHeader("Pragma", "public"); }
This seems to have solved the issue for us. You could put the above code in a Filter mapped to your download urls in the members context.
HTH,
Jon
Brad Hafichuk wrote:
The problem I'm facing is that I have MSWord (*.doc) files in a webapp that required basic auth to access. The problem I've come across is that when downloading (viewing) the files in IE, word can't find the file (it's not cached http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=317208). I've checked out the headers using wget and it looks like tomcat is adding the Pragma and Cache-Control headers (which causes the IE problem). Note that I'm running apache infront of tomcat.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] PVIMS]# wget -S "http://username:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/members/acclaim/PVIMS/Section 10.doc" --15:49:58-- http://username:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/members/acclaim/PVIMS/Section%2010.doc => `Section 10.doc.5' Resolving www.nationalengineering.ca... 142.59.91.190 Connecting to www.nationalengineering.ca[142.59.91.190]:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 1 HTTP/1.1 200 OK 2 Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 21:44:17 GMT 3 Server: Apache/2.0.50 (Fedora) 4 Pragma: No-cache 5 Cache-Control: no-cache 6 Expires: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT 7 Set-Cookie: JSESSIONIDSSO=74C58A3FE66679CF322FE867EE6469CC; Path=/ 8 Set-Cookie: JSESSIONID=48B55A59C96C5DA1BDBE5CA6D781FF88; Path=/members 9 ETag: W/"41984-1092171072000" 10 Last-Modified: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 20:51:12 GMT 11 Content-Type: application/msword 12 Content-Length: 41984 13 Connection: close
100%[=================================================================================>] 41,984 --.--K/s
15:49:58 (1.37 MB/s) - `Section 10.doc.5' saved [41984/41984]
Is there anyway I can remove these headers for the /members context. I'm basically using tomcat in place of Apache's .htaccess files, since I need to use tomcat's single-signon for other *real* applications.
Thanks, Brad
Brad Hafichuk Azus Technologies Inc. www.azus.net (403) 710-8079
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