The file actually downloads to the machine and I get a HTTP OK response. Throwing a http sniffer up, the only difference between Firefox and IE7 seems to be some cookie variable differences.
Download fails with “internet explorer was not able to open this internet site”. A few weeks back my guide updates suddenly stopped worked.Īfter MANY hours tracing the issue down I found that it is downloading a TXT file from (ROFL – their own servers having trouble with IE). In this case I am running Vista boxes throughout my house. Well, I have what appears to be the same exact issue – except I don’t have access to the servers to effect such a change. This resolved the problem I was having with the application I was working on. As soon as I did that I was able to download CSS and JS files from the affected IIS 6 server.
Microsoft’s website alludes to a hot fix. Mind you, throughout this entire process I was attempting to Google for a result.
The problem seemed to be specific to this install of IIS 6 and Internet Explorer.Īt this point I tried all the classics solutions, reboot my machine, the server, restart IIS. I manually sent the http request and data came right back. This prompted me to try using telnet and connecting to port 80 on the server with the problem. As it turns out they did!Īt this point I tested access to the same JS file on the other servers and they all worked. What the heck was going on?īy accident I tried the URL to the JS file in Firefox and it downloaded! At that point I began trying my neighbors’ Internet Explorer browsers to see if they also had problems. I checked the permissions on the CSS file and surrounding file system structure and found that the files had correct permissions. IIS was correctly configured to serve CSS files.
The two development servers are IIS 6 on Windows Server 2003. Both my server and my neighbors server are IIS 5.1 running on Windows XP Pro. The scenario is this: I have a particular application installed on four IIS servers: mine, my cube neighbors, a development server and another development server in a different office. I even used telnet and manually sent an http request which correctly returned data. I could download the files using Firefox. I kept getting the message, “Internet Explorer cannot download FileName from WebServer“.
On one particular II6 server, and not another, I was unable to download CSS and JS files when using Internet Explorer.