RE: SSL problem returning PDF file...

From: Steven Cheng[MSFT] (v-schang_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 10/29/04 

Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 12:28:56 GMT

Hi Wayne,

Thanks for your posting. Regarding on the problem you mentioned, I've
checked our internal document and did find that this is a known issue of
the IE. In fact, the problem is declared as below
========================
When using POST over HTTPS to access a server script that streams back a
PDF file,
users are prompted with the secure/insecure warning dialog - i.e., IE does
not
regard the PDF as secure content
Problem occurs on IE 6.0 sp1
========================

And currently it seems haven't been fixed yet. If you do want to avoid this
warning message, I'm afraid one workaround is to use Response.Redirect to
redirect to the pdf file directly rather than use code to stream it.
Please feel free to let me know if you have any concerns on this or if
this workaround is not suitable.

Thanks.

Regards,

Steven Cheng
Microsoft Online Support

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