> I had the same problem with IE4. I talked to MS and they said there is
> absolutely no way to fix it (in IE4) without using an ActiveX Control.
This
> only applies to .txt files. Looks like they broke IE5.5 too. IE5.0 works
> better -- not perfect (spinning globe or perminent hour glass cursor).
I've seen one version -- MSIE 5.0; Windows 98 -- that will access our site
where the spinning globe and permanent hour glass cursor occurs when trying
to download a file (generally .doc or .xls), and the logs looked like this:
[21/Sep/2000:06:44:02 -0700] 202.156.109.213 \(Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE
5.0; Windows 98; DigExt)\)
https://www.xyz.com/rd.jsp?m=544&i=1422&c=U%22S%7C%5Bk%245%4035Q8%24y2 ->
/ga.jsp/Yozons+biz+plan+2000-09.rtf
[21/Sep/2000:06:44:09 -0700] 202.156.109.213 \(Microsoft Data Access
Internet Publishing Provider Cache Manager\) - -> /ga.jsp
[21/Sep/2000:06:44:13 -0700] 202.156.109.213 \(Mozilla/2.0 (compatible; MS
FrontPage 4.0)\) - -> /_vti_inf.html
[21/Sep/2000:06:51:52 -0700] 202.156.109.213 \(MSFrontPage/4.0\) - ->
/_vti_bin/shtml.exe/_vti_rpc
[21/Sep/2000:07:04:20 -0700] 202.156.109.213 \(Microsoft Data Access
Internet Publishing Provider DAV\) - -> /ga.jsp/Yozons+biz+plan+2000-09.rtf
It's unusual because the type (in parens after the IP address) changes with
5 different flavors, and it will hang apparently because the IE5.0 is trying
to use WebDAV. This problem went away when the person upgraded to IE5.5.
I've seen different behavior using different Content-Disposition headers on
the IE 4.0, 5.0 and 5.5 browsers. I only have one Netscape 4.7 browser, so
I don't know what problems may arise in those versions, but the netscape
browser always seems to open the Save As/Open type dialog as we'd like --
though for .TXT and .JPG files it will just render them. I've used:
Content-Disposition: inline;filename="xyz.doc"
Content-Disposition: attachment;filename="xyz.doc"
I've not nailed it all down yet, but we may need to return one for certain
versions of the browser, and the other for the rest.
David
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