Posted by JDS on 10/24/05 21:33

On Sun, 23 Oct 2005 13:02:59 -0400, shawn wrote:

> I have a pdf that I am serving outside the web root. What puzzles me is
> that IE only lets me save the document. After I save it I can open the
> document with no problem. When I choose "Open" from IE's popup dialog, it
> launches Adobe Reader and the Adobe Reader returns error:
>
> "There was an error opening this document. The file cannot be found".

Is it served on an SSL-enabled server? (https:// port 443)

MSIE has some issues (bugs? features?) with cached files and SSL sites.

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