timjpriebe — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 12:21:23 +0000

Turns out that IE was not storing the file in its temporary files. Since that's where it opens from, or copies from when you select the save option, that was the issue. The culprit was a no-cache statement on our server. The really odd thing is that it didn't show up when we ran a diff between that config file and the same one on another server that didn't have no-caching turned on.

Well, thanks for all the various attempts at help.

dk01 — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 23:36:40 +0000

Ok even though you are on on intranet there is still an address though. I am not asking for a link. Just an example like:

\\computer\share\file.doc

demonhale — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 20:13:48 +0000

well if youre trying to make it work for IE then that program could help, it could work as a standalone or can work with IE...

timjpriebe — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 19:50:06 +0000

Demonhale, that won't tell me anything. I've already stated that I can't download it in IE but can in other browsers.

demonhale — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 19:39:02 +0000

Hey tim, try this, get flashget (a program)... Its a helper for IE for download, try if flashget gets it wrong or doesnt download the file then theres a server processing problem.. if it does, then the system is just screwing up...

timjpriebe — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 19:28:50 +0000

Unfortunately, I can't. It's on an intranet.

dk01 — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 18:51:08 +0000

timjpriebe wrote: This doesn't have anything to do with code. I type the URL of the Excel file into my address bar, and that's what happens.

Server-Side scripting was just the best forum I could find to post this in.

Oh! Well that sure is odd. Can you give us example of an address that doesn't work?

timjpriebe — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 18:18:37 +0000

This doesn't have anything to do with code. I type the URL of the Excel file into my address bar, and that's what happens.

Server-Side scripting was just the best forum I could find to post this in.

dk01 — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 18:14:23 +0000

Its a bit hard to diagnose without any code.

All I can suggest is to go back and see if it depends on the location of the file, the file name, the file extension etc.

timjpriebe — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 15:53:20 +0000

We just noticed a couple more pieces of information. We actually are getting a "File Download - Security Warning" instead of the normal download prompt. Also, on that window, even if we've typed the file's URL in directly, it has an underscore where we typed a period.