My good friend Stuart McIntyre just asked me via twitter if I could post my solution for the following problem.
Google chrome is currently one of the fastest growing browsers on the market but officially there isn't any support for this browser for IBM Connections, however for the people using this browser they will see it fairly works (I haven't yet seen any issue's yet) inside IBM Connections. This is a big plus for IBM Connections because this means IBM uses techniques on web development which are currently widely accepted.
There is one issue known to me currently with chrome and IBM Connections. That's downloading files out of the files application within IBM Connections.
If you do that with Google chrome you will get a error as follows
This is due to a more restrict way of handling HTTP headers in the HTTP response. Which other browser yet doesn't do yet.
If you look at the HTTP response header of the request you make when you want to download a file the response header will look something like this.
Date Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:03:11 GMT
Server Apache
Cache-Control public,must-revalidate,max-age=0
X-LConn-Auth true
X-UA-Compatible IE=EmulateIE7
X-Content-Type-Options nosniff
Last-Modified Tue, 05 Jul 2011 13:01:54 GMT
Etag "3fd7aee2-d524-416d-bb11-01706cc8f687:modified=1309870914734"
Content-Length 4409038
Content-Disposition attachment; filename*=UTF-8'nl'%49%42%4d%5f%43%6f%6e%6e%65%63%74%69%6f%6e%73%5f%52%47%5f%33%30%31%5f%46%69%6e%61%6c%2e%70%64%66; size=4409038; creation-date=Tue, 5 Jul 2011 15:01:54 +0200; modification-date=Tue, 5 Jul 2011 15:01:54 +0200;
Keep-Alive timeout=10, max=99
Connection Keep-Alive
Content-Type application/pdf
Content-Language en-US
If you take a close look at the header Content-Disposition you will see that the value is
attachment; filename*=UTF-8'en'%49%42%4d%5f%43%6f%6e%6e%65%63%74%69%6f%6e%73%5f%52%47%5f%33%30%31%5f%46%69%6e%61%6c%2e%70%64%66; size=4409038; creation-date=Tue, 5 Jul 2011 15:01:54 +0200; modification-date=Tue, 5 Jul 2011 15:01:54 +0200;
The problem with this value according to google is that according to the RFC written by IETF (sorry but I don't know the exact RFC number) this is not a allowed value ! if you want to use a comma (,) inside the header field this needs to be enclosed with quote's ("). So the correct value should be as follows
attachment; filename*=UTF-8'en'%49%42%4d%5f%43%6f%6e%6e%65%63%74%69%6f%6e%73%5f%52%47%5f%33%30%31%5f%46%69%6e%61%6c%2e%70%64%66; size=4409038; creation-date="Tue, 5 Jul 2011 15:01:54 +0200"; modification-date="Tue, 5 Jul 2011 15:01:54 +0200";
Have a close look at it you almost don't see the difference but there is :-)
To accomplish the above you can put the follwoing config line into your http.conf of your IBM HTTP Server.
Header edit Content-Disposition ^(.*)creation-date=(.*);\smodification-date=(.*);$ "$1creation-date=\"$2\"; modification-date=\"$3\";"
To make this config line gonnan work you have to make sure the mod_header module is enable in the httpd.conf
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Google chrome & IBM Connections (Sjaak Ursinus 8.Mar.12)
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