Hi,
Absolutely right, I've run into it myself. IE sees the file
extension, and triggers Excel (using an MS web library client, I
forget the exact name) to issue a second HTTP request. Incorrectly, in
my opinion, because it doesn't even evaluate the MIME type first; in
fact, it ignores the MIME type entirely the last time I checked. And
it didn't matter what the target was in our case, but I'm speaking
from second hand knowledge on that part, so I could be remembering
wrong. I do know that I had to create a separate Directory block with
no authentication for MS Office files, because IE always (in our case)
passed the URL to the MS web library client instead of making the
request itself. Check your apache access logs - if the UserAgent
string is that library instead of MSIE, then I'd bet that's the
trouble.
IE appears to be broken (not just in this way). I have a script that
adds a record to a database and then generates a PDF file and because
it's not cacheable it is served with the appropriate headers. IE
decides to ask for the file twice - it would seem to be once for IE to
identify the file and once for the plugin. Opera does it correctly. I
have had to allow the object to be cacheable for a short length of time
to work around this flaw.
Sounds like a similar sort of problem.
Neil.
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