trice at cisco
May 13, 2008, 6:55 AM
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RE: Errors when accessing PowerPoint and word files, IE but not FireFox
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Bad form to answer my own question, but for the sake of the archive,
here goes...
Apparently IE doesn't like "no-cache" in a cache-control header.
Changing that to max-age=0 solved the problem.
Bad: header Set Cache-Control: "no-cache"
Good: header Set Cache-Control: "max-age=0"
FireFox, Opera, etc all do fine with either config.
-Tony
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony Rice (trice)
> Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 4:41 PM
> To: users[at]httpd.apache.org
> Subject: [users[at]httpd] Errors when accessing PowerPoint and
> word files, IE but not FireFox
>
> When accessing Microsoft PowerPoint or word files on my
> webserver, I'm seeing errors accessing the file via IE
> (version 6 and 7) but problems when using FireFox. The odd
> thing is that the problem only occurs when specifying the
> full path to the URL. When clicking on the filename from the
> DirectoryIndex, it launches just fine.
>
> The error that IE gives is:
>
> --start of Internet Explorer error dialog--> Internet
> Explorer cannot download ...<filename goes here>.ppt from <hostname>.
>
> Internet Explorer was not able to open this Internet site.
> The requested site is either unavailable or cannot be found.
> Please try again.
> --end of Internet Explorer error dialog-->
>
> The headers sent by the server (Apache 1.3.26) are identical
> whether using IE or FireFox. I assumed it was IE being picky
> about the MIME type and tried reconfiguring the server to
> send application/ms-PowerPoint, application/PowerPoint,
> application/ms-PowerPoint, and application/vnd.ms-powerpoint
> all of which work fine with FireFox but all bomb on IE.
>
> IE seems to know what the file is because it first prompts
> for a password (as expected),
>
>
> Any ideas?
>
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