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Content-disposition IE5 bug: a solution

Posted by Leo on June 14, 2001 at 1:10 PM

A solution i found is :

- to define both the content-type and Content http://download?[params]&thefilename.xls-disposition *without the filename option* :

res.setHeader("Content-Type","application/msexcel" );
res.setHeader("Content-Disposition","attachment" );

if the file name is a concern, you may try a hack that works for php file on apache : http://server/script.php/param=val/file.xls
(eg replace the ? and & with / )

Btw, i wonder what the hell M$ developers smoke? Content-Disposition behavior is described in RFCs.

Leo