IE cannot download foo.jsf. IE was not able to open this internet site. The requested site is either unavailable or cannot be found

Question

I\'m providing a file download (usually CSV or PDF) in my JSF web application on a HTTPS (SSL) host. It works fine in most browsers, only IE7/8 gives the following error:

Answer 1

The issue wouldn't be related to jsf as it's just converting commandbutton to html which is accessible in all browsers. I'm guessing the issue is in abcBean.downloadCSV. Are you setting the content-type properly on the csv file?

Can you describe what occurs in your action method?