diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/HttpFoundation/Response.php b/src/Symfony/Component/HttpFoundation/Response.php
index cc540356cf..413ae36a40 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/HttpFoundation/Response.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/HttpFoundation/Response.php
@@ -253,6 +253,16 @@ class Response
             $this->headers->set('expires', -1);
         }
 
+        /**
+         * Check if we need to remove Cache-Control for ssl encrypted downloads when using IE < 9
+         * @link http://support.microsoft.com/kb/323308
+         */
+        if (false !== stripos($this->headers->get('Content-Disposition'), 'attachment') && preg_match('/MSIE (.*?);/i', $request->server->get('HTTP_USER_AGENT'), $match) == 1 && true === $request->isSecure()) {
+            if(intval(preg_replace("/(MSIE )(.*?);/", "$2", $match[0])) < 9) {
+                $this->headers->remove('Cache-Control');
+            }
+        }
+
         return $this;
     }
 
diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/HttpFoundation/Tests/ResponseTest.php b/src/Symfony/Component/HttpFoundation/Tests/ResponseTest.php
index 6ca569c3ea..28b9d53732 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/HttpFoundation/Tests/ResponseTest.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/HttpFoundation/Tests/ResponseTest.php
@@ -326,6 +326,75 @@ class ResponseTest extends \PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
         $this->assertEquals('text/css; charset=UTF-8', $response->headers->get('Content-Type'));
     }
 
+    public function testNoCacheControlHeaderOnAttachmentUsingHTTPSAndMSIE()
+    {
+        // Check for HTTPS and IE 8
+        $request = new Request();
+        $request->server->set('HTTPS', true);
+        $request->server->set('HTTP_USER_AGENT', 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0; Trident/4.0)');
+
+        $response = new Response();
+        $response->headers->set('Content-Disposition', 'attachment; filename="fname.ext"');
+        $response->prepare($request);
+
+        $this->assertFalse($response->headers->has('Cache-Control'));
+
+        // Check for IE 10 and HTTPS
+        $request->server->set('HTTP_USER_AGENT', 'Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/6.0)');
+
+        $response = new Response();
+        $response->headers->set('Content-Disposition', 'attachment; filename="fname.ext"');
+        $response->prepare($request);
+
+        $this->assertTrue($response->headers->has('Cache-Control'));
+
+        // Check for IE 9 and HTTPS
+        $request->server->set('HTTP_USER_AGENT', 'Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 7.1; Trident/5.0)');
+
+        $response = new Response();
+        $response->headers->set('Content-Disposition', 'attachment; filename="fname.ext"');
+        $response->prepare($request);
+
+        $this->assertTrue($response->headers->has('Cache-Control'));
+
+        // Check for IE 9 and HTTP
+        $request->server->set('HTTPS', false);
+
+        $response = new Response();
+        $response->headers->set('Content-Disposition', 'attachment; filename="fname.ext"');
+        $response->prepare($request);
+
+        $this->assertTrue($response->headers->has('Cache-Control'));
+
+        // Check for IE 8 and HTTP
+        $request->server->set('HTTP_USER_AGENT', 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0; Trident/4.0)');
+
+        $response = new Response();
+        $response->headers->set('Content-Disposition', 'attachment; filename="fname.ext"');
+        $response->prepare($request);
+
+        $this->assertTrue($response->headers->has('Cache-Control'));
+
+        // Check for non-IE and HTTPS
+        $request->server->set('HTTPS', true);
+        $request->server->set('HTTP_USER_AGENT', 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.17 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/24.0.1312.60 Safari/537.17');
+
+        $response = new Response();
+        $response->headers->set('Content-Disposition', 'attachment; filename="fname.ext"');
+        $response->prepare($request);
+
+        $this->assertTrue($response->headers->has('Cache-Control'));
+
+        // Check for non-IE and HTTP
+        $request->server->set('HTTPS', false);
+
+        $response = new Response();
+        $response->headers->set('Content-Disposition', 'attachment; filename="fname.ext"');
+        $response->prepare($request);
+
+        $this->assertTrue($response->headers->has('Cache-Control'));
+    }
+
     public function testPrepareDoesNothingIfContentTypeIsSet()
     {
         $response = new Response('foo');