Anton, In my recollection of past IE issues with downloading dynamic pdfs, I finally gave up and wrote the pdf out to a file, then redirected. This was with very old IE 5.0 browsers, though, and I'd have thought this issue was behind us. Anyway, it may be a short-term fix for your situation, and easier to implement than getting your clients to switch/upgrade browsers.
You'd only need to do this on a case-by-case basis by checking the browser type/version. With most browsers you could continue to serve your pdfs dynamically. Jeff Bauer Rubicon, Inc. On 01/23/2010 04:22 AM, Anthon wrote:
I have some problems downloadin a PDF file over https. The setup is mod_wsgi + apache (python 2.6). Downloading via https to Firefox works without a problem as does downloading over HTTP (both IE7 and Firefox). I tried to download a .csv file from the appadmin database administration pages and that doesn't work either so it doesn't seem to involve my particular use of response.headers and response.stream. (FWIW I tried both direct streaming as well as first writing a file). I could not manage to setup running web2py from the commandline using SSL to check if this is a mod_wsgi problem: on my local machine I get a connection but have no valid certificates and on my server I have valid certificates but cannot get ssl to run yet ( "WARNING:root:OpenSSL libraries unavailable. SSL is OFF" ) I tried to see if the web2py demo pages have the .csv downloading enabled since those work over https as well (https://web2py.com/ demo_app/appadmin/select/db/event) but downloading has been disabled there (because it is demo I can understand that uploading is disabled...). I am next going to try and see if this is a IE7 issue (by installing IE8) but I am not sure if I can convince my clients to switch if that solves the issue (as I might as well ask them to use Firefox in that case). Any help or insights would be appreciated. Anthon
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