>
> > I still don't understand what do you mean by sending IE some text?
> > Your whole webapp consisted just from a pdf generator?
>
> No, but this particular page was intended to be:
>    1. POST form over SSL
>    2. Display the PDF
>
> > And if not then why do you say that you sent some text
> > to IE before sending the PDF?
>
> Instead of trying to serve the PDF directly in response to the form
> post, I instead forward to a JSP that sends some HTML.  That, IE can
> deal with.


Wendy, the key is that you make this in order to make a GET request
instead of a POST request. I just wanna say that the solution is
not the sending of HTML, the solution is to send the PDF in response
to a GET request. You are not sending _some_ HTML, you send a
_special_ HTML that makes a GET request.


Don't hesitate to ask for more clarification-- unfortunately this was
> all so long ago that I'm having trouble coming up with a good
> explanation.


I think that the picture is clear enough.
I just wanna convince you that your wiki page should say that IE
will show this confirmation dialog if you try to send the PDF file in
response to a POST request. To solve the problem you could either
use GET or if you have to use POST then you could use the trick
with the redirect.

But maybe, I'm a little bit cheeky. First I ask for help and when you offer
your help I respond by criticizing your wiki page ;-)


Thanks for your help,
Tamas

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