SP2 problems with in-house application

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No, the author of your application needs to fix the application's MIME
handling. Refer your author to chapter 5 of the "Changes in
Functionality Guide," specifically the section "Internet Explorer MIME
Handling Enforcement."

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/p [...] .mspx#EGAA

Steve Riley
steriley@microsoft.com



"Stephen" <sbarash@ns.calpoly.edu> wrote in message
news:u3QmEXs5EHA.2124@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> We have an in-house application that was built using vbd (Visual
> Basic Document - VB forms hosted by Internet Explorer) files. After
> installing XP service pack 2, every time a user clicks a button, or
> does just about anything in this application, they get the prompt
> "Do you want to open or save this file?" from Windows as the
> application accesses the vdb files from the local hard drive. The
> application works fine if you are willing to click the 'open' button
> after every prompt, but the prompts occur so often that the
> application is rendered unusable.
>
> The author of the application recomends modifying all workstation's
> registries with the following entry:
> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet
> Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_MIME_HANDLING]
> "iexplore.exe"=dword:00000000
>
> This works, but this worries me. This registry modification would
> seem to disable Internet Explorer mime handling for everything,
> disabling this new security feature of SP2. There has got to be a
> better way, yet I've searched and have not been able to find
> anything else that works.
>
> Does anyone have any thoughts or ideas how we can make this
> application work with SP2, yet not cripple security?
>
> Thank you,
> Stephen
>