RE: Problems streaming PDF over HTTPS to IE

["Hookom, Jacob" <Ja...@redline.mckhboc.com>]

What exactly is the issue? You said you are having problems and are
referencing caching headers, but what are you seeing happen?

-Jake

-----Original Message-----
From: Brown, James [mailto:james.brown@ca.unisys.com] 
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 2:36 PM
To: Struts Users Mailing List
Subject: Problems streaming PDF over HTTPS to IE

We are having a problem streaming a PDF to Internet Explorer over HTTPS.  I
have located a number of postings (namely
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;316431) that denote
this as a known feature/bug in IE; however, we can't seem to get the
solution correct.

As we would like all of the application to be non-cacheable, we have set the
following in the struts-config.xml
  <controller>
    <!--  Set pages as no-cache -->
    <set-property property="nocache" value="true"/>
  </controller>
Which works as expected.

In the Action class we attempt to override the nocache via:
          response.setHeader("Cache-control", "");

This does not appear to have the effect of overriding the controller
setting.

Any thoughts?


                                  Cheers,
                                  James
Below is a larger snippet from the Action.execute(...) method.


  public ActionForward execute(ActionMapping mapping,
                               ActionForm form,
                               HttpServletRequest request,
                               HttpServletResponse response)
    throws IOException, ServletException {
    HttpSession sess = request.getSession();

    String report = "XYZ.pdf";
    // stream the PDF data to the browser
    if (report != null) {
      javax.servlet.ServletOutputStream sos = response.getOutputStream();
      try {
        response.setContentType(PDF_MIME_TYPE);
        // as per
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;316431
        // Internet Explorer will not be able to display the PDF in SSL
unless
        // the page is set to be cacheable
        response.setHeader("Cache-control", "");
        File reportFile = new File(report);
        FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(reportFile);
        byte[] fisBytes = new byte[(int) reportFile.length()];

        fis.read(fisBytes);
        response.setContentLength(fisBytes.length);
        sos.write(fisBytes);
        sos.flush();
        sos.close();
      } catch (Exception e) {
        ActionErrors errors = new ActionErrors();
        errors.add(ActionErrors.GLOBAL_ERROR,
                   new ActionError(Constants.ERROR_KEY_HDR +
Constants.LC_ERROR_HDR + "5001"));
        saveErrors(request, errors);
      } finally {
        sos.close();
        response.reset();
      }
    }
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