Hi Oscar, Thanks for your reply. I will try this out. Hope this <meta> tag works :)
Regards Arnab Oscar Westra van Holthe - Kind wrote: > > On 27-05-2009 at 01:58, arnab_ghosh wrote: >> In firefox the disposition window is generated with no problems. In IE >> the >> file-download is blocked by IE security setting. A yellow bar drops down, >> saying "To help protect your security, IE blocked this site from >> downloading >> files to your computer. click here for options" >> >> Now if I click on the bar and select option "download file" the page >> refreshes but the content disposition window is not generated. >> >> To download again I have to again click on the button second time. This >> times it generates the disposition window. > > In my experience, this is a bug in IE which the vendor (Microsoft) won't > fix. > The cause: selecting the action in the yellow bar refreshesthe page with > the > new security settings, but does not refresh the actual (download) link > that > triggered it. > > Your best bet is to work around it by displaying a download page, with a > message like "Thank you for downloading. The download should start > automatically. If not, you can [start it manually here]". The bit between > square brackets is then the download link, which is also added to the page > header in a meta tag like this: > <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="2;url=[download link]"/> > > > Oscar > > -- > ,-_ Oscar Westra van holthe - Kind http://www.xs4all.nl/~kindop/ > /() ) > (__ ( Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things. > =/ () -- Robert Heinlein > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Register Now for Creativity and Technology (CaT), June 3rd, NYC. CaT > is a gathering of tech-side developers & brand creativity professionals. > Meet > the minds behind Google Creative Lab, Visual Complexity, Processing, & > iPhoneDevCamp as they present alongside digital heavyweights like > Barbarian > Group, R/GA, & Big Spaceship. http://p.sf.net/sfu/creativitycat-com > _______________________________________________ > Stripes-users mailing list > Stripes-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/stripes-users > > :-):-):-):-):-) -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/File-download-Blocked-in-IE-tp23738644p23776205.html Sent from the stripes-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Register Now for Creativity and Technology (CaT), June 3rd, NYC. CaT is a gathering of tech-side developers & brand creativity professionals. Meet the minds behind Google Creative Lab, Visual Complexity, Processing, & iPhoneDevCamp as they present alongside digital heavyweights like Barbarian Group, R/GA, & Big Spaceship. http://p.sf.net/sfu/creativitycat-com _______________________________________________ Stripes-users mailing list Stripes-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/stripes-users
