Just a guess: Are you using tomcat standalone ? If yes try to use tomcat with apache. Tomcat 3.* implement HTTP 1.0 Maybe the IE uses some HTTP 1.1 features to download Word files. (Remember it's just a guess, we had this kind of problems with the acrobat plugin for IE and a file servlet under jserv, that didn't deal with byte range requests (HTTP 1.1)) > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Lawrence Pit [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 8. November 2000 10:17 > An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Betreff: Downloading .doc files with Tomcat <snip/> > I'm using Tomcat 3.1 and have also tried with Tomcat 3.2 beta > 6, and with > both versions I can't download Word documents. <snip/>