"Steve" <Steve@d...> wrote in message
news:CC804CB9-FCC1-49A5-9F93-D0FED75F3DD1@m......
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> "Joe Fawcett" wrote:
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> > 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?
>

Can you try it without the no-store cache control value.  Sometimes this
header causes WinInet (the component of windows being used to fetch the
document) some trouble.

> Thanks,
> -Steve
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