Hi,
IE appears to be broken (not just in this way). I have a script that adds a record to a database and then generates a PDF file and because it's not cacheable it is served with the appropriate headers. IE decides to ask for the file twice - it would seem to be once for IE to identify the file and once for the plugin. Opera does it correctly. I have had to allow the object to be cacheable for a short length of time to work around this flaw.Absolutely right, I've run into it myself. IE sees the file extension, and triggers Excel (using an MS web library client, I forget the exact name) to issue a second HTTP request. Incorrectly, in my opinion, because it doesn't even evaluate the MIME type first; in fact, it ignores the MIME type entirely the last time I checked. And it didn't matter what the target was in our case, but I'm speaking from second hand knowledge on that part, so I could be remembering wrong. I do know that I had to create a separate Directory block with no authentication for MS Office files, because IE always (in our case) passed the URL to the MS web library client instead of making the request itself. Check your apache access logs - if the UserAgent string is that library instead of MSIE, then I'd bet that's the trouble.
Sounds like a similar sort of problem.
Neil.
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