Downloading website pdf files problem

When I try to download a pdf file from a website, Internet Explorer stops working. This happens on 4 websites that I've tried.

Not sure what is causing this; I have no problems opening PDFs in IE11.
One thing to try: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2716529

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I've written a simple functionality that manages file attachments.
Everything works fine (attaching, downloading, deleting) when the webserver runs on Windows.
However when I deployed the code to the Resin webserver run on Linux and use the Win browser to connect to the app, the downloading of PDF file doesn't work (uploading and downloading of txt, doc, xls, jpg files is OK).
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matali wrote:
          int bufSize = 10000;
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This piece is completely wrong and doesn't work for files bigger than 10000 bytes. Replace it by
byte[] buffer = new byte[10240]; // 10KB exactly.
int length = 0;
while ((length = input.read(buffer)) > 0) { // Read next 10KB of input to buffer.
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}Or just use output.write(input.read()) in a loop of the contentLength as you're alredy using BufferedInputStream/BufferedOutputStream.
Another thing, the method is declared to return a boolean, but it actually doesn't? I would just let it throw an exception in case of failure instead of returning a boolean and let the calling method handle the exception.

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