[opencms-dev] OpenCMS 8/9 PDF Link IE8 not working

Thu Oct 30 16:32:38 CET 2014

Hi all,

We stuck on a problem that a CMS PDF is not downloadable within IE8 (all other browsers do) from within the cms surflet context.

The http response header looks like this:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 14:16:33 GMT
Server: OpenCms/9.0.1
X-FRAME-OPTIONS: SAMEORIGIN
Cache-Control: no-cache
Pragma: no-cache
Expires: 0
X-UA-Compatible: IE=Edge,chrome=1
Last-Modified: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 13:39:22 GMT
Content-Type: application/pdf
Content-Length: 73340
Via: 1.1 <server>
Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=100
Connection: Keep-Alive

The only workaround that works currently is: setting the export property to true 
the response header is then:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 15:08:17 GMT
Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
X-FRAME-OPTIONS: SAMEORIGIN
Cache-Control: no-cache
Pragma: no-cache
Expires: 0
X-UA-Compatible: IE=Edge,chrome=1
Accept-Ranges: bytes
ETag: W/"1793087-1414681257762"
Last-Modified: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 15:00:57 GMT
Content-Type: application/pdf
Content-Length: 1793087
Via: 1.1 slaweb01.atriumberlin.de
Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=100
Connection: Keep-Alive

But this can't be the final solution because, this document would be downloadable without cmslogin

The none working manifest.xml section is:
		<file>
			<source>sites/default/cnt/home/<path>/<filename></source>
			<destination>sites/default/cnt/home/<path>/<filename></destination>
			<type>binary</type>
			<uuidstructure>fd7e5bcd-5f70-11e4-88e4-f01faf26b604</uuidstructure>
			<uuidresource>fd7e5bce-5f70-11e4-88e4-f01faf26b604</uuidresource>
			<datelastmodified>Thu, 30 Oct 2014 14:58:34 GMT</datelastmodified>
			<userlastmodified>tkluge</userlastmodified>
			<datecreated>Wed, 29 Oct 2014 13:39:22 GMT</datecreated>
			<usercreated>tkluge</usercreated>
			<flags>0</flags>
			<properties>
				<property>
					<name>Title</name>
					<value><![CDATA[Download of File]]></value>
				</property>
				<property>
					<name>export</name>
					<value><![CDATA[false]]></value>
				</property>
			</properties>
			<relations/>
			<accesscontrol/>
		</file>

The filesize is 73340

The effect is an empty page with that src content:
	<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
	<HTML><HEAD>
	<META content="text/html; charset=windows-1252" http-equiv=Content-Type></HEAD>
	<BODY></BODY></HTML>

If I press F12 in the download page, the document mode is Quirks.

Any help?
Thanks Thomas