"Joe Fawcett" wrote:

> Sorry I misunderstood. The only thing I can think of is something related to 
> the certificate on the server. Can you type the URL into the browser and 
> retrieve the file?
> Is there an warning related to the certificate.
> 
> Hope this helps, it's difficult to track these down when I can't test it for 
> myself with something like Fiddler to watch the traffic.
> 
> Joe Fawcett (MVP - XML)
> http://joe.fawcett.name

Thanks for the help Joe.  It is a self-signed cert, but I have added it to 
IE's trusted cert store.  I installed Fiddler 2 which understands HTTPS.  I 
directly access the HTTPS URL that dynamically returns the XML and all is 
fine.  However, when I access it via the XSL stylesheet that uses the XPath 
document function(), I continue to get a failure in IE (The download of the 
specified resource has failed.), but the server's result looks fine.  From 
Fiddler 2:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate
Pragma: no-cache
Expires: 0
Content-Type: text/xml;charset=UTF-8
Content-Length: 7960
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2007 19:44:43 GMT

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 
<java version="1.4.2_13" class="java.beans.XMLDecoder">
....
</java>

Thus, it looks to me that there is a bug in MSXML and/or IE.  The result is 
returned to the browser, yet IE (or is it the MSXML engine inside IE?) 
decides for some reason unknown to me that the returned data is somehow 
"invalid".  I think I'm going to have to re-write everything to perform 
server-side transforms.  Is there someway I can enter a bug report for IE so 
that this gets fixed or at least someone reponsible for the product explains 
what the heck is going on?

Thanks,
-Steve