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Workaround for IE/SSL Problem

If you’re having trouble downloading files (using passthrough scripts) in IE over SSL, the fix is to turn off cache headers. To do this in Apache:

<Files filename.php>

	Header unset Pragma

	Header unset Cache-Control

</Files>

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Posted November 3rd, 2004 @ 12:06 PM

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dblookup.info adds this Trackback:

Workaround for IE/SSL downloading file problem
I ran into this problem before and I didn’t find a descent solution. So you might be interested with the one proposed by Alex King.

Header unset Pragma
Header unset Cache-Control

(I didn’t test it myself yet)

November 3rd, 2004 at 4:49 pm
Ian Landsman's Weblog adds this Trackback:

IE Download Bug
Alex King came across a work around for the IE file download bug. I found this one on Joseph Scott’s blog previously and it seems to work well:

http://alexking.org/[...]ack.php/1108

November 3rd, 2004 at 7:03 pm
dvc adds this Comment:

i assume this line is added in in the httpd.conf file?

July 14th, 2005 at 6:44 am
Alex adds this Comment:

It’s an Apache configuration setting, so httpd.conf or .htaccess.

July 14th, 2005 at 7:02 am
Simon adds this Comment:

Adding a bogus Pragma header works too.
In PHP:

header(”Pragma: dummy=bogus”);
header(”Cache-Control: private”);

June 6th, 2008 at 2:27 am

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