Re: Stream download problem

Michael Satterwhite wrote: > Prathaban Mookiah wrote: >> Micheal, >> >> I ran into this problem too. A easy workaround is to right click and >> choose 'save as' which worked for me. > > I wish that would work. The URL is along the lines of > <a href="easy.php?download=stream&dltype=full> - and it's this that gets > substituted for the filename. It reports that it cannot be written to > the cache. is possible for you to change the way the URL is written so that it looks like so: easy.php/fakepdfname.pdf?download=stream&dltype=full or easy.php/download/stream/dltype/full/fakepdfname.pdf I'm pretty sure that this would fool IE into accepting the download (I remember Richard Lynch offering such a 'solution'** in the past). obviously is requires that your webserver will actually run easy.php (due to the fact that the rest of the 'path' doesn't exist (this is a matter of the correct configuration in apache - I *think* its default behaviour actually) AND changing easy.php to [also] accept the get parameters as part of a faked URL path. ** 'solution' as in 'another hack to work round an IE bug' > >> For complete information on this you want to have a look at >> http://support. >> microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/279667 > > I find this interesting MSoft claims to have fixed the problem back at > IE 5.1, but I'm still seeing it - and I'm up to date as is my client. Of > course, I seldom believe anything MSoft says. seldom is more than most :-) >