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Chad_Roberts_21
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Jan 08, 2007

Problems downloading files with CACHE-CONTROL header

I asked this in response to a previous thread, but my question went unnoticed... I'll try again here. I recently tried adding the following simple iRule to one of our web apps. It seemed to work w...
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Andrew_Vishnyak
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Mar 28, 2007
Found the same problem with PDF, XLS and Java Web Start (JNLP) files.

IE 6/7 fails to download; Firefox is fine.

The problem seems to go away if you force the HTTP version in the response status line to 1.0 for all app downloads:

when HTTP_RESPONSE {
   if { [HTTP::header "Content-Type"] contains "application" } {
      HTTP::version "1.0"
   }
}

Seems like a hack, so I'm still looking for a proper solution. Anybody?