(HTTPS) Download functionality fails in IE6-8

[rolf_b]

Hi all,
We discovered the Problem that all IE downloads (ie6,ie7,ie8) fail in current v3.3 in https mode.
The problem seems to be the "pragma: no-cache" header that was added due to this Post/Bug report:
http://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=11412

It’s probably the same Problem reported here already but is not solved and needs an alfresco change.
http://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=26840

See ms knowledge base:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/323308/en-us
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/316431/en-us

Solution might be to remove the no-cache header, and workaround proxy issues only with revalidate/etag/expires.

Thanks for your replies,
Rolf

[mikeh]

As far as I'm aware, we don't have a no-cache header; we do have Cache-Control and ETag however.

Do the workaround steps in the MS KB articles work for you?

Thanks,
Mike

[rolf_b]

Hi Mike,
yes, we tested the registry hack and it seems to work but is not very elegant at all as it needs certain rights and is a clientside solution.
Alfresco (v 3300) sets the following headers in https mode (checked by live http headers firefox plugin):

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
Pragma: No-cache
Cache-Control: must-revalidate
Expires: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 UTC
Set-Cookie: alfUser=admin; Expires=Sun, 13-Jun-2010 21:22:53 GMT; Path=/alfresco
Last-Modified: Mon, 17 May 2010 09:59:22 GMT
Etag: "1274090362239"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Range: bytes 0-182765/182766
Content-Type: application/pdf;charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 182766
Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2010 21:22:53 GMT


tried using the download-file functionality.
Best regards,
Rolf