Re: file type being blocked by IE

2009-05-15 Thread André Warnier
Brandon Steward wrote: I found this work around. You can add this to the webapp's xml config. Valve className=org.apache.catalina.authenticator.FormAuthenticator disableProxyCaching=false / On the face of it, that doesn't seem to have *anything* to do with the issue you mentioned.

Re: file type being blocked by IE

2009-05-14 Thread Todd Hivnor
I'm not sure if it still behaves this way. But historically IE has ignored the declared content-type and instead used the file extension. The work-around was to add a bogus argument to the URL: http://server/get-the-goodies.jsp?filetype=.zip This way it looks like a .zip file to IE. Also,

Re: file type being blocked by IE

2009-05-14 Thread André Warnier
Brandon Steward wrote: I have a Tomcat web application that generates output files and the files have the extension .zip. I try to download them in IE, but I get the generic error from IE saying it cannot download the file. I can try the same thing in Firefox and it works just fine. I've

Re: file type being blocked by IE

2009-05-14 Thread Brandon Steward
For example, the link shows up as: http://servername/contextpath/filename.zip I tried adding the ?filetype=.zip to the end of the link, but that didn't make any difference. Do you have any other suggestions? Thanks, Brandon Todd Hivnor wrote: I'm not sure if it still behaves this way.

Re: file type being blocked by IE

2009-05-14 Thread Brandon Steward
I've disabled the show friendly error pages. Here's the screenshot of the error. Brandon André Warnier wrote: Brandon Steward wrote: I have a Tomcat web application that generates output files and the files have the extension .zip. I try to download them in IE, but I get the generic error

RE: file type being blocked by IE

2009-05-14 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
From: Brandon Steward [mailto:bstew...@jsu.edu] Subject: Re: file type being blocked by IE I've disabled the show friendly error pages. Here's the screenshot of the error. Or not. The list strips most attachments, including yours. IE thinks it's the smartest thing on the planet, thereby

Re: file type being blocked by IE

2009-05-14 Thread Brandon Steward
] Subject: Re: file type being blocked by IE I've disabled the show friendly error pages. Here's the screenshot of the error. Or not. The list strips most attachments, including yours. IE thinks it's the smartest thing on the planet, thereby justifying its rather rude behavior of ignoring