IE Address Bar issue

[Charles Hasegawa]

Not even sure if this is the best place or not...

We have a JSP/HTML page that has code along the lines of:

<form action="./LetterListGenerator" method="post"                         target="_top" >
  <td bgcolor="#EEEEEE" height="20" valign="center" >
     
    <input type="submit" value="Get File" >
      List of People
    </input>
  </td> 
</form>

where LetterListGenerator is a servlet.

Clicking on the button does exactly what it should - it generates a txt file. However, once finished, the address bar gets "stuck" in Internet Explorer. So, if the page address was http://myserver.com/myproject/listGenerationMenu.jsp , then when I click a link in my page's menu, it goes to the proper page. The title in IE changes, but the URL still reads http://myserver.com/myproject/listGenerationMenu.jsp

I can type a new URL and it will change properly, but if I just continue to follow links on my pages, the URL never changes to tell me where I am at.

Has anyone heard of anything like this in IE? The same issue does not happen in Firefox.

[Bug Menot]

The solution is to not use IE.

[Charles Hasegawa]

Thanks, that's pretty helpful

[Bear Bibeault]

Bug, much as we all hate IE and its plethora of bugs and ideosyncarcies, telling clients that their web apps won't work in a browser that is still used by the vast majority of Internet patrons is not a viable solution.

Charles, this is one IE behavior that is new to me. I am assuming that there are no frames or iframes in the mix?

[Bear Bibeault]

it generates a txt file.

This may be an important clue.

So is the servlet setting a content-disposition header other than the default? Are you specifically setting the content type?

[Charles Hasegawa]

    response.setContentType("text/plain");
    response.setHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachment; filename=" + exportFileName);
        /*
         * From Microsoft Knowledge Base Article Q323308 (http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=323308)
         * SYMPTOMS Internet Explorer may not download files over an SSL connection when the
         * "no-cache" cache control header is being used with the connection. When this occurs, you
         * may receive the following error message: Unable to download. Internet Explorer was unable
         * to open this site. The requested site is either unavailable or cannot be found. Please
         * try again later. WORKAROUND To work around this problem, use the "no-store" cache control
         * header or turn off SSL. Both "Cache-Control" and "Pragma" must be set to "no-store" for
         * this workaround to work.
         */
    response.setHeader("Cache-Control", "no-store");
    response.setHeader("Pragma", "no-store");
    PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(response.getOutputStream());