On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, Jochen F. Rick wrote: > > I uploaded with IE 5.00.2920.0000 (I don't know if that is before or after > > the service pack) The server runs on 2000, though, so that might be why > > mine's fixed and 98 or NT isn't. I still run into the problem with > > opening Microsoft Word docs. Just killed my server right now! ;( > > That is so messed up. Damn you Microsoft. Everybody, please get a voodoo > doll, write "Bill Gates" on it, and put a needle in the head. If I hear > of Bill Gates having constant headaches, I'll have leveraging power to > get this problem taken care of. 8-7=1 > > Now, to solve your problem (at least practically). Use another server to > serve uploads (such as Apache or MS Personal Web Server). If you are only > using the machine for your development environment (and don't need to get > at it from other machines), you can even use the file://... protocol. > Open up a file in the uploads folder. Copy the file:// URL of the > directory to the uploadServerPath setting. That should work.
Do you know what the problem is? I can't imagine what's so special about Word documents. HTTP is HTTP, after all. Or does Word itself try to download the file in some non-standard way? -- Bert
