This one has me a bit stumped. I'm not sure if it's me, A4D, 4D Web Server or Microsoft...
Server Side: Active4D v4rc6 using 4D Web Server, 4D 2003.4, Windows Client Side: Internet Explorer, Windows We have a site that that allows web users to log on to it and amongst other things download documents. We are encountering a sporadic problem where if an Internet Explorer user clicks on a link to download a document AND then chooses the option to automatically "Open" the document (as opposed to download it), then that user's default application (Word or WordPad) will give a "File Cannot be Found" error. The applications appear to be looking for the document in a temporary folder used by IE. A manual inspection appears to confirm that the document is not there. I say sporadic because it only affects some environment/browser combos. If it does affect a system then it consistently affects that system. We can't quite figure out what the non-working environments have in common. For example, on two nearly identical windows XP systems one worked and the other didn't. The working one had an older office service pack. We upgraded it which caused it to longer work. Great! Now I could say that it's all Microsoft's fault, except... The error message also occurs on an older windows system that we use for testing. On another site, created by our .net developers, they use a similar technique for file downloads, affected systems seem to be able to do this sort of file download fine. To reiterate... * The error only occurs if the user chooses the "Open" option. It does not occur if they first choose the "Download" and then open the document manually. * It only occurs with Windows IE (Firefox fine, Macintosh in general fine) and then only for some users or possibly OS environments and/or IE versions. * A .net site that happens to use a similar technique for file downloading works without errors. I THINK that I am correctly setting headers and MIME types etc (the browsers recognise the type and use the correct application) but if anyone is willing to look at it, then I am eager to post the file download code that I am using. Any help appreciated -Kevin Williams _______________________________________________ Active4D-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.aparajitaworld.com/mailman/listinfo/active4d-dev Archives: http://mailman.aparajitaworld.com/archive/active4d-dev/
