Posted by shawn on 10/13/25 11:30

"JDS" <jeffrey@example.invalid> wrote in message
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> 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)
>
Yes.
> MSIE has some issues (bugs? features?) with cached files and SSL sites.
>
Maybe you are right. I just found it worked just fine with Netscape and
Firefox. So is there a remedy for this for IE?

Thanks for you reply!

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