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. On the face of it, that doesn't seem to have *anything* to do with the issue you mentioned. But hey, if it works with IE, who am I to wonder..

Re: file type being blocked by IE

2009-05-14 Thread Brandon Steward
I found this work around. You can add this to the webapp's xml config. Thanks for everybody's help, Brandon Caldarale, Charles R wrote: From: Brandon Steward [mailto:bstew...@jsu.edu] Subject: Re: file type being blocked by IE I've disabled the "show friendly 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

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 erro

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. But

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 tri

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, w