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Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 14:20:33 -0600
From: Dick Hildreth <DickHildreth@earthlink.net>
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Tobias,

Thank you very much!

It didn't occur to me to mention that I was retrieving data via HTTPS, 
but when I saw your response, I knew that you had solved my problem.

I modified my code as you suggested, and all is now well!

Thanks again.

Dick

Tobias Meyer wrote:

>We have had several issues with IE and downloads as well. 
>I'll try to summarize:
>
>1. Cacheing:
>If the cacheing is completely disabled ( setHeader("Expires", 0) and alike -
>not 100% sure what header exactly triggered this ), IE will refuse to write
>the file to disk - at least when using SSL secured pages. If it is not in
>the cache, you cannot display it, and you get "File not found" errors.
>This is actually intentional, and not considered a bug by MS.
>
>To set zero-cacheing that works in IE and Mozilla alike (both, http:// and
>https://) we use following code:
>
>/* Disabling the caching completely causes an error in IE,
> * because IE internally uses the cache-file to provide the data to other
>applications.
> * No cache file - no data.
> * Solution is to allow cacheing (pragma empty), but set
> * the expires header to the same value as the date header. 
> */
> Date now = new Date();
> HttpServletResponse response = runData.getResponse();
> DateFormat headerDateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("E, dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss
>z",new Locale("en"));
> headerDateFormat.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT"));
> response.setHeader("Date", headerDateFormat.format(now));
> response.setHeader("Expires", headerDateFormat.format(now));
> response.setHeader("Pragma", "");
> response.setHeader("Cache-Control", "must-revalidate");
>
>
>2. The filename
>IE and Mozilla handle the content-disposition: attachment differently.
>This is critical when using non-ascii characters in filenames. 
>AFAIR there was an issue with a "+" character needed by mozilla, but
>disallowed by IE.
>Mozilla is RFQ compliant, IE is not.
>
>Cannot find the code right now, though...
>
>3. The mime-type.
>We use
>response.setContentType("application/vnd.ms-excel");
>
>I'm not sure about the filname ending. It was always ".xls" for us in the
>content-disposition, but never in the URL...
>
>Hth,
>Tobias
>
>  
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Iain.Shepherd@barclayscapital.com
>>[mailto:Iain.Shepherd@barclayscapital.com]
>>Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 10:33 AM
>>To: poi-user@jakarta.apache.org
>>Subject: RE: HSSF Failure in IE
>>
>>
>>    
>>
>>>This one sends back a 'redirect' to the browser, telling
>>>it to fetch outputxls.xls or even
>>>outputxls.xls?filename=myworksheet&extension=.xls as the
>>>final result.
>>>      
>>>
>>An alternative I've used is to fetch a filename like:
>>    
>>
>>>output.xls.jsp?parameters....
>>>      
>>>
>>According to some MS Knowledge Base article I can't remember, 
>>even a URL
>>like this will trick IE into treating it as a XLS.
>>
>>Iain
>>
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Christian Gosch [mailto:c.gosch@inovex.de] 
>>Sent: 15 December 2005 08:35
>>To: POI Users List
>>Subject: Re: HSSF Failure in IE
>>
>>
>>There may be another issue, too, although I am curious about what
>>happens when using "Content-Disposition" in correct capitalization.
>>
>>IE uses different information sources to determine whats 
>>coming over the
>>net, as I said before. I forgot to mention the "extension of the URL".
>>Its a bit funny, but it _may_ help to append ".xls" to the 
>>request which
>>finally gets the data.
>>
>>For example: We have a JSP displaying a link to a struts action which
>>does some preprocessing and forwards "externally" 
>>("redirect='true'" in
>>struts-config.xml) to a servlet effectively producing the result. The
>>link on the page is something like preparexls.do which calls something
>>like PrepareXlsAction. This one sends back a 'redirect' to 
>>the browser,
>>telling it to fetch outputxls.xls or even
>>outputxls.xls?filename=myworksheet&extension=.xls
>>as the final result.
>>
>>If everything else fails, you may check that out additionally.
>>
>>Regards,
>>Christian
>>
>>
>>On Wednesday, December 14, 2005 10:44 AM [GMT+1=CET],
>>Nick Burch <nick@torchbox.com> wrote:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Dick Hildreth wrote:
>>>      
>>>
>>>>content-disposition: attachment; filename=actionitems.xls
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>>Content-disposition: attachment; filename=actionitems.xls
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>The header is called "Content-Disposition", isn't it? (Note the 
>>>capitalisation - that's the form that RFC2183 has it in anyway)
>>>
>>>Perhaps IE is being funny about the case?
>>>
>>>Nick
>>>
>>>
>>>      
>>>
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