asked on 7/17/2008

Problem with Response.Write in a secure page in Internet Explorer

I have a openFile.aspx page which contains the code to open a file according to the contentType. Right now I am using the following code to open the file in that page:

Response.ContentType = strContentType;
Response.AddHeader("Content-Type", strContentType);
Response.AddHeader("Content-Disposition", "inline;filename=" + fileName);
Response.WriteFile(strUrl);
Response.End();

Now, currently how it works is, if you click a link on some page say abc.aspx, it opens a openFile.aspx in a new popup window, passing it the URL of requested file.

now this works fine normally, but when the application is run on secure server, internet explorer shows an information bar in popup window saying "IE has blocked this website from downloading files on your computer." When I click on it and click Download File, instead of downloading file, it will open the original page(abc.aspx) in that popup window. However if I disable information bar from Internet options, it works fine. Please Help

Web Browsers ASP ASP.NET

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Thranduil

7/17/2008

prairiedog

7/17/2008

Can you post the code which generates the popup window?

Thranduil

7/17/2008

ASKER

Here's the javascript code that opens popup


function OpenPopup(url,id, name, attrib)
{
	var attArr = new Array()
	attArr = new Array("fileURL", url);
	attArr = new Array("fileID", id);
	var td = new Date();
	var rnd = new String(Math.round(td*1.0));
	eval("wnd_" + rnd + "=" + "window.open('','','" + attrib + "')");
	wndvar = eval("wnd_" + rn);
	with(wndvar.document)
	{
		clear();
		writeln("<HTML>");
		writeln("<Head>");
		writeln("<meta http-equiv='content-type' content='text/html;charset=iso-8859-1'>");
		writeln("<meta http-equiv='pragma' content='no-cache'>");
		writeln("<meta http-equiv='cache-control' content='no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate, max-age=0'>");
		writeln("<meta http-equiv='expires' content='0'>");
		writeln("<title>" + name + "</title>");
		writeln("</Head>");
		writeln("<body>");
		writeln("<form name='openFile' method='post' action='" + url + "'>");
		for(i=0; i<attArr.length; i++)
		{
            		var arr = attArr[i];
            		writeln("<input name='" + arr[0] + "' type='hidden' value='" + arr[1] + "'>");
		}
		writeln("</form>");
		writeln("</body>");
		writeln("</HTML>");
	}
}

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prairiedog

7/17/2008

With your code, I believe any popup blocker will block the window.
Since you already have a page OpenFile.aspx, you can just use something like:
window.open("OpenFile.aspx?fileID=id" to open the popup window without triggering the popup blocker.
I need to know how you contruct the links on the abc.aspx to give you more specific information.

Thranduil

7/17/2008

ASKER

Actually the window pops up when I click the link, and it works fine. But, when the application is running on secure server, the window pops up but it wont display the download file message. It will show an information bar, and when i click on it and click download file, it will open abc,aspx inside the popup.

Also, I just tested it on firefox and it runs smoothly. Only IE is giving me problems

About the links, they are normal href links which call javascript:openPopup(...)

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Thranduil

7/17/2008

ASKER

It worked... adding https:// to urlpath did it.
Can believe something this small baffled me for hours.

Thx for your help