Hi Ludwig, I personally encountered the same behavior on some test machines before running IE 5.0 / 6.0. (i switched to Firefox, issue resolved :) ) This seems to be an unresolved issue with the way the IE browser handles the application/x-gzip content-type.
For more details, refer to the comments section of the discussion of this same issue on MSDN's blog. http://blogs.msdn.com/wndp/archive/2006/08/21/Content-Encoding-not-equal-Content-Type.aspx I'm not sure if this is only IE 6 centric or is resolved by IE 7, but I guess the easiest way is to advise your colleague to just use Firefox. On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 8:41 PM, Ludwig Isaac Lim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi: > > The following is a the summary of the problem: > > A colleague tries to use an IE browser to view the listings of a directory > of 2 remote > machines. The remote machines are running apache as its web server. The files > are under the > directory are of type .pdf.gz > > > On one machine, when the user clicks the name of the file, the file is > uncompressed and the > pdf document is displayed on the browser. One the other machine, it prompts > the user to save the > file. Is this problem apache related? The colleague did some grep on some of > the apache > configuration file of both machines and it seems that they are similar > (Should have probably diff > them). > > If this problem is an apache problem, where does the problem reside? > mime.conf? httpd.conf? > > Thanks in advance. > > Regards, > > Ludwig Lim > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Be a better friend, newshound, and > know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. > http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > -- -- Xander Solis xrsolis.blogspot.com _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
