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More info?)
That's what I thought, so I disabled the setting in Miscellaneous called
"Open files based on content, not file extension" but with no effect.
Trouble is, the IE versions are the same between the 2000 and XP machines,
so it has to be something to do with the OS behaving differently with IE.
Anyhow. I guess this is going to be one of those "by design" cop-outs, so
I'll probably switch the users over to Firefox. That correctly asks if I
want to save the file on both 2000 and XP.
Thanks for your help David.
Regards...Andrew
"David Candy" <.> wrote in message
news:e3iqlU4YFHA.2664@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> IE loves content sniffing. I downloaded a reg file a month ago and IE was
> convinced it was an avi or something (MP3 can't remember). I was suss and
> saved it and examined it to see. It was a plain old unicode reg file. The
> byte sequence just happened to match an avi.
> "Andrew Hayes" <AndrewHayes@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:#KWD1GqYFHA.2520@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>> Hi David,
>>
>> No. I have an web app that creates CSV and XLS documents for the user to
>> download, and pops up a small IE window to show progress while it's doing
>> so.
>>
>> Unfortunately, when my app redirects the browser to the file upon
> creation,
>> it either opens in the small window, or in a seperate browser window, or
> in
>> the associated app.
>>
>> My users don't want any of those options. They want to see the Open/Save
>> dialog.
>>
>> Setting the File Type options from Folder Options works well with Windows
>> 2000 (it always shows the Open/Save dialog) but with Windows XP it can't
>> seem to make up it's mind what to do.
>>
>> Sometimes it will open the file in the app, sometimes it will open it
> within
>> the popup window, and sometimes it asks if I want to save or open the
> file.
>> It's not consistant.
>>
>> The only way I know for sure for it to prompt to save the file being
>> downloaded from the web is to remove the file association, but that is
>> not
> a
>> suitable solution.
>>
>> Is there a setting under Internet Options (Security, Content, Advanced,
>> etc.) that forces IE to ignore file associations that are not animations,
>> sounds, movies, or pictures?
>>
>> Or is it a setting in Excel that tells it not to open content directly
> from
>> the browser?
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>>
>> Regards...Andrew
>>
>> "David Candy" <.> wrote in message
>> news:ODzch3mYFHA.2664@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
>> > You want to download web pages?
>> > "Andrew Hayes" <AndrewHayes@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> > news:eO28JMmYFHA.252@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>> >> Hi all,
>> >>
>> >> While I know about the "Confirm open after download" and "Browse in
> same
>> >> window" options that I can set for the file types, is there any way to
>> > force
>> >> IE to always ask to Open/Save a file, regardless of the extension?
>> >>
>> >> I don't really want to go through every file type on every user
> desktop,
>> >> manually changing the settings, when all their browsers take settings
>> >> from
>> >> the ISA server.
>> >>
>> >> Any information would be appeciated. Thanks.
>> >>
>> >> Regards...Andrew
>> >>
>> >>
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