IE won't load PDF in a window created with window.open

Question

Here\'s the problem, which only occurs in Internet Explorer (IE). I have a page that has links to several different types of files. Links from these files exe

Answer 1

I have solved this problem with an invisible iframe

And this logic here (using jquery):

if ($.browser.msie && ($.browser.version < 9.0)) {
  frm.location.href = href;
}
else {
  window.open(href);
}

The behaviour in my case is exactly as if the document was opened in a popup, as I'm using

Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="document.pdf"