viewing PDF or XLS in SSL problem

[2004 IR Help]

By: Mannix Reyes - mannixreyes

viewing PDF or XLS in SSL problem

2003-05-20 23:36

Hi,

 

i generate pdf & xls in a servlet & pass it to the client by streaming.. my connection is in SSL, but when it reaches the cleint... IE displays "This page contains both secure and nonsecure items. Do you want to display the nonsecure items?"

 

But the generated html is fine.

 

What causes this message ?

 

Thanks =)

 

 

 

 

 

By: David Rollins - rollinsd

RE: viewing PDF or XLS in SSL problem

2003-07-17 12:28

I'm having the same problem. I was wondering if you had managed to resolve the problem. It is more of an annoyance than anything else, but I would like to keep our system as clean as possible.

 

 

 

 

By: David Hardwick - dhardwick

RE: viewing PDF or XLS in SSL problem

2003-07-24 12:40

I just experienced the same problem with trying to print the PDF within an SSL stream, and I created a work around by prepending http:// to the form action. This is not desired because the form is not all that secure. This is not a Jasper Reports problem, though, so I'm going to check google for other folks having this problem too.

 

 

 

 

By: David Hardwick - dhardwick

RE: viewing PDF or XLS in SSL problem

2003-07-28 08:32

This seems to be a known problem even within IE 6 sp1.

 

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;323308

 

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;815313

 

This problem does not occur with netscape. There were some responses to this on the iText site as well.

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http://www.lowagie.com/iText/faq.html#msie

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I've been playing around with different CacheControl and Pragma setting but with no success thus far.

 

Based on the KB article from MS, they say this problem will get fixed in SP2 for IE 6.

 

Regards,

David

 

 

 

 

By: David Rollins - rollinsd

RE: viewing PDF or XLS in SSL problem

2003-07-29 09:05

Thanks for the update. I'll try it.

 

 

 

 

By: David Hardwick - dhardwick

RE: viewing PDF in SSL problem (SOLUTION)

2003-07-28 09:14

Okay, here's the solution for sending dynamic content in a byte stream over SSL when using Internet Explorer

 

bytes = JasperRunManager.runReportToPdf (reportFile.getPath(), parameters, conn);

 

res.setContentType("application/pdf");

//-IE- Issue with IE and SSL, zero out all CACHE parameters

res.setHeader("Expires", ""); //-IE-

res.setHeader("Cache-Control", "");//-IE-

res.setHeader("Pragma", "");//-IE-

 

res.setContentLength(bytes.length);

ServletOutputStream ouputStream = res.getOutputStream();

ouputStream.write(bytes, 0, bytes.length);

ouputStream.flush();

ouputStream.close();

 

Thanks to Todd Murphy for providing me with the solution (I emailed the person in another forum and they just got back to me...I tried it out and it worked.)

 

 

 

 

By: pyosky - pyosky

RE: viewing PDF in SSL problem (SOLUTION)

2005-02-22 04:12

that didn't help me, but a post in the iText forum did.

 

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=2658745

 

mind the link to microsoft...