Thanks again.
protocol was https. This setting was turned off when I reproduced the problem
"David Wang [Msft]" wrote:
> I stay mostly on the server newsgroups so I don't know about clients, but it
> looks like microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6.browser is a reasonable
> place to start. It has some traffic - though I have no certainty about
> people answering questions nor the quality of responses.
>
> The other place I would go is the IE team blog at
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/ > since I know people frequent there. However, the problem is that the Blog is
> focused on IE7, IE development, and discussion - not necessarily support for
> prior IE behaviors.
>
> One client-side behavior that I think may influence the behavior over HTTPS
> but not HTTP is the "Do not save encrypted pages to disk" option - if IE
> cannot save the encrypted pages to disk, then it obviously cannot:
> 1. save encrypted downloads (this is a well known change introduced in an IE
> patch to IE5.5 and IE6 which people noticed)
> 2. run a handler to open the resource since it doesn't exist - so can't
> offer "Open" as a download option
>
> --
> //David
> IIS
>
http://blogs.msdn.com/David.Wang > This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
> //
>
> "Richard Glanville" <fredfredfred@online.nospam> wrote in message
> news:8FE1512F-E3BE-41F3-99FB-5C389E90032D@microsoft.com...
> > Thanks - what managed news group would you suggest, I can't see a suitable
> > one. There is a whole group for IE5 - what should I use for IE6?
> >
> > Richard.
> >
> > "David Wang [Msft]" wrote:
> >
> >> It looks like a change with IE on Windows Server 2003 and SP1. I would
> >> inquire with the IE folks.
> >>
> >> IIS can only offer browser HINT of what to do, based on MIME Type, but
> >> since
> >> you configured it to be the same, you are really looking at client-side
> >> behavior change.
> >>
> >> --
> >> //David
> >> IIS
> >>
http://blogs.msdn.com/David.Wang > >> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
> >> rights.
> >> //
> >>
> >> "Richard Glanville" <fredfredfred@online.nospam> wrote in message
> >> news:794D6023-07AF-4629-8172-B6737E612BD4@microsoft.com...
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > I'm trying to investigate a problem wher IE does not offer to open a
> >> > item
> >> > downloaded via https. So far can only reproduce on Windows 2003 Server
> >> > _Enterprise Edition_ with SP1 installed. Could not repro with Standard
> >> > Edition.
> >> >
> >> > Can be reproduced like this:
> >> > On some other server:
> >> > Create a text file called test.foobar in an IIS virtual directory
> >> > Register a mime type of "application/x-foobar" in IIS for this
> >> > extension.
> >> > Use explorer on the Windows 2003 Server Enterprise Edition SP1 machine:
> >> > Register notepad as the application that opens .foobar files
> >> > Use IE on the Windows 2003 Server Enterprise Edition SP1 machine:
> >> > Use http to browse to the test.foobar file - IE will offer to Open,
> >> > Save
> >> > or Cancel
> >> > Use https to the same file and IE will only offer Save or Cancel
> >> >
> >> > Anyone know why this might be?
> >> >
> >> > Cheers,
> >> > Richard.
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
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