[thelist] HTTP headers for PDF files and IE

Ken Schaefer Ken at adOpenStatic.com
Sun Oct 15 21:25:46 CDT 2006


: -----Original Message-----
: From: thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org [mailto:thelist-
: bounces at lists.evolt.org] On Behalf Of Bill Moseley
: Sent: Monday, 16 October 2006 1:36 AM
: To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
: Subject: Re: [thelist] HTTP headers for PDF files and IE
: 
: On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 09:27:00PM +0100, Lee kowalkowski wrote:
: > On 14/10/06, Bill Moseley <moseley at hank.org> wrote:
: > > This works fine in Safari, Opera, FF, lynx, w3m but not in IE.
: > >
: > > IE reports:
: > >
: > >    The requested site is either unavailable or cannot be found.
: >
: > Check if IE gives a slightly different message if you do a right-
: click
: > "Save File As...", something like not being able read/write from/to
: > the cache.
: 
: Ding!
: 
: Yep that's it.  "The file could not be written to the cache".
: 
: > I'm suprised you get this for non-HTTPS requests.
: 
: Ya, maybe that was just once IE got in a bad state...  I can't seem to
: repeat it now.  I have a better test page:
: 
:     http://infopeople.org/pdf
: 
: I'll leave that up for a day or so.
: 
: So https links #5 and #6 seems to work.  Isn't IE fun?


All of the links (both HTTP and HTTPS) work for me IE6 on XP SP2

Cheers
Ken



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