It's a bug in IE. See: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q281119
Murali Srinivasan wrote: > I have a struts action that sends back files in different formats after > setting the content-type header to "application/octet-stream" and > Content-disposition header to "attachment;filename=\"foo.txt\"". While > this works fine in Netscape, IE appears to ignore the headers completely > and tries to download the HTML for the URL. IE makes the first request > correctly and pops up a "file save" dialog box. Once the user clicks the > Save button, it makes a second request for the download URL, but not > including the request parameters required to set the attributes in the > ActionForm. During the second request, struts resets the attributes for > the ActionForm to null, causing a validation failure. Any information on > a workaround to resolve this problem would be appreciated. Thanks in > advance! > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
