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Asked: 2026-05-10T16:46:50+00:00

This a bit of strange one…. We have an internal web app that runs

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This a bit of strange one…. We have an internal web app that runs on server (A) and a document repository that runs on server (B).

I have simple link on a page and I want to enable the user to download a document(From IIS Server (A)). However this document does not exist on Server (A) until the user clicks the button(because there is 40+ documents to display cannot load them all when the page loads)

When the user clicks the link(at which point I would like then to be prompted to download) The document is copied to server (A) and then redirected to a page where the browser prompts them to download. I believe I have set up the content header correctly and it works in FireFox.

IE(7) just pops up a window and then the window disappears, If I turn down the security settings it works OK but that is not an option.

Any Ideas how to solve this. I cannot point directly to the document on Server(B)

ADDITION: Yes Server B is also a Web Server

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  1. If the world can see server A and server A can see server B. I would recommend setting up a reverse proxy.

    http://www.codeplex.com/urlrewriter

    Basically what this does is allows the world to download from server B but only through the reverse proxy. You can create a reverse proxy interface with this library above with the following rule.

    RewriteRule ^/download/(.*) http://server-b/download/$1 [NC,P]

    So in the case of

    http://server-a/download/xyz.pdf

    it would actually request it from

    http://server-b/download/xyz.pdf

    but it would be delivered as if it was coming from server-a, this technically happens by the reverse proxy creating a web connection, from server-a, to server-b and copying the HTTP response to the response of server-a.

    Let me know if you need any help.

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