> > > 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