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? --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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