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'Unable to download' bug in IE when downloading from https

Thread began 5/20/2010 9:19 am by propoint | Last modified 12/21/2010 1:39 pm by robin.harrison368334 | 3649 views | 6 replies |

propoint

'Unable to download' bug in IE when downloading from https

After upgrading to UE 4 and updating Download behaviors on my page, none of the downloads will work in Internet Explorer over a secure connection (https). All downloads function fine in Firefox and Chrome.

The attached image shows the error message received.

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Eric Mittman

I did a little searching for this error and found this MS KB article on it:

323308

From the looks of it this has to do with a bug in Internet Explorer that can be patched by updating the registry. It looks like this has to do with a Cache-Control: type header.

I can see that in the download function there is a header like this but it is not set like the kb article mentions. It might be worth making a backup of the webassist > file_manipulation > helperphp.php file first and searching it for Cache-Control:, it should be on line 690 by default. When you find this you can try to update it to be another valid value, maybe like this:

php:
header('Cache-Control: max-age=0');



Please test it out like this to see if it resolves the issue, let us know what you experience.
After making this update

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propoint

RE: UE4 Download File Manipulation not working (HTTPS)

I have tried both options. I tried the KB article fix as well as changing the line in the Helper file and I get the same results. When I open the same page on testing server that is NOT using SSL everthing works fine. I tried the fix on multiple machines running IE 7 & 8 on Windows XP SP3 and Windows 7.

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Eric Mittman

I'm not sure if this is something we will be able to work around or not. If this is a bug in the browser that we cannot work around with an update to the code then it is not something that we will be able to fix. I have opened a ticket for you on this issue so that it can be checked on more. To update the ticket or check on its status login and visit your support history.

supporthistory.php

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robin.harrison368334

Was this ever figured out?

I have the same problem when using file download under https it can't find the pdf for download. Under normal http everything works fine?

Any help?

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Ray BorduinWebAssist

I found this text in the support incident:

I did some more checking and testing. In the file manipulation helperphp.php file around line 690 the header is set. I made the following changes before the line that reads the file from the system.

// set headers for download file
header("Pragma: public"); //added
header("Expires: 0"); //added
header("Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0"); //added
header("Cache-Control: public"); //added
header("Content-Description: File Transfer"); //added

header('Content-Type: application/octet-stream'); //original line
header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="' . $fileName . '"'); //original line
header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary"); //added


header("Content-length: ".filesize($path)); // original line


does that work for you as well?

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robin.harrison368334

You ARE The Man!

That worked like a charm!

Now the file downloading works with "Https:"

Thanks very much!

Hopefully this thread will help others out there.

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