[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > Our Rails application allows WAV file downloads. The user clicks on a > link, or > clicks a button, and the WAV file gets sent as a response, using > send_file. > > It looks like IE is discarding the initial WAV file and passing the > URL to Windows > Media Player. Windows Media Player then re-requests the file!! > > In addition to the performance problems, this design problem causes > failures in the > case of the download being initiated from a POST, since the re-request > from the > Media Player is only a GET, not a POST. > > How do I prevent this re-request? > I have found that the way that works for me (I use this for PNG) is to serve it up with the mime type 'application/unknown' so that IE does not try to interpret what program should handle the information coming down.
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