>>I have a web app (VFP + Web Connect) running for 3 years. Suddenly, this week a user complaints that "the app broke". It was downloading reports in PDF and XLS format to the client fine. Now it wants to download HTML only. What changed? They upgraded their browser from IE 5.5 to IE 5.5 with a much later build (from 4134 to 45xx or similar).
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>>The same happens with attempting to download .DOC, .XLS, and sometimes .TXT
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>>Anybody has an idea what has changed? Any settings I can tweak?
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>FOUND IT!
>Q279667 FIX: Content-Disposition Attachment Header Does Not Save File

Alex;

Glad you found the answer. We are still waiting for Microsoft to resolve a list of problems found when going from I.E 5.0 to I.E. 5.5, to view our web applications. I think the solution will be to drop ASP, DHTML, and VB Script. .NET is begining to look good - hope it works and works well!

Tom