Thank you very much for the information. However, I also had to to
change Cache-Control value (no-cache => cache) too.
Anyway thank you for your answer


On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 15:03:10 +0100, Jon Wingfield
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Tomcat adds (or at least did in the 4.1 branch) certain response
> headers, directives to clients and proxy caches to not cache the data,
> when it is to serve something within a security-constraint. (log
> examples at end of post)
> 
> [It seems that] When IE downloads something with a mime-type it thinks
> it can handle (probably via a plug-in) it caches the data and then
> passes it over to the plug-in. With SSL and the Pragma header set to
> no-cache this seems to fail with the error message described in the
> original post.
> 
> Our entire site is SSL also and we've seen this error (and our hack
> resolves it) for csv, excel, pdf files. Downloading with the
> content-type set to application/octet-stream doesn't trigger the error
> in our experience (we also provide this option on the download pages but
> users generally want to see the data directly).
> 
> Jon
> 
> Examples from my 4.1.29 logs when the RequestDumperValve is commented in:
> 
> Response for index.jsp (inside security-constraint):
> authType=null
> contentLength=-1
> contentType=null
> cookie=JSESSIONID=EB28F372EF5D5FC5C2908C57766010BA; domain=null; path=/
> header=Pragma=No-cache
> header=Cache-Control=no-cache
> header=Expires=Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT
> header=Set-Cookie=JSESSIONID=EB28F372EF5D5FC5C2908C57766010BA; Path=/
> header=Location=http://localhost:8080/login.jsp;jsessionid=EB28F372EF5D5FC5C2908C57766010BA
> message=null
> remoteUser=null
> status=302
> 
> Response for bgdot.gif (outside security-constraint):
> authType=null
> contentLength=77
> contentType=image/gif;charset=ISO-8859-1
> header=Server=IMP/4.0.20
> header=ETag=W/"77-1098106680000"
> header=Last-Modified=Mon, 18 Oct 2004 13:38:00 GMT
> message=null
> remoteUser=null
> status=200
> 
> 
> 
> David Wall wrote:
> 
> > Our web site is entirely SSL.  Most users have IE.  Our application is used
> > to securely transfer and digitally sign attached files that must be
> > downloaded.  Yet, we've never seen this problem.  Who is putting in the
> > "Pragma" header in the response in the first place that you have to change
> > it this way?  And why does the Pragma setting have the negative effect
> > described?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > David
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Jon Wingfield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: "Tomcat Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Friday, October 15, 2004 9:57 AM
> > Subject: Re: Internet Explorer Bug under SSL Connection
> >
> >
> >
> >>Yep. This comes up every so often on the list.
> >>
> >>Whenever IE downloads content we change the Pragma response header to be
> >>public instead of no-cache:
> >>
> >>String userAgent = request.getHeader("user-agent");
> >>if (response.containsHeader("Pragma")
> >>     && userAgent!=null
> >>     && userAgent.toUpperCase().indexOf("MSIE")>-1) {
> >>     response.setHeader("Pragma", "public");
> >>}
> >>
> >>
> >>HTH,
> >>
> >>Jon
> >>
> 
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