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+Internet Explorer and SSL
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+Luke Ehresman <luke@squirrelmail.org>
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+I've just spent the last few days trying to track down the now famous bug
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+with IE and SSL. The problem lies in the fact that PHP sends some no-cache
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+headers whenever a session is started. IE chokes when trying to download a
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+file that it can't cache over SSL. We use session management to store many
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+things, one being the key to decypher the password.
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+Once we had figured out that it was sessions in PHP that was causing the
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+problem, we tried turning the session management off in the download script
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+in Squirrelmail. This introduced another problem for us because we NEEDED
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+sessions to decypher the key so we could log into the IMAP server and
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+download the attachment.
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+Next we tried leaving the sessions turned off, but passed the key in through
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+a GET parameter. This worked, but is obviously not a very secure way of
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+handling things.
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+Our quest continued for a good solution. Finally, I was browsing through
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+the source of PHP, I noticed the 2 headers it was sending were "Pragma" and
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+"Cache-Control". I had the crazy idea of defining these again after the
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+session had been started, and lo and behold, it worked! Below is the code
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+that made this work:
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+ session_start()
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+ header("Pragma: ");
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+ header("Cache-Control: cache");
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+With all the testing I have done, this works, and works very well for all
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+browsers.
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