Error while trying to download Outlook settings

[Webcart]

Hello,

While trying to download Outlook settings at Home » redguitars.com » Email » Pop Accounts page, I get a browser error (see attachment).

[DirectAdmin Support]

Hello,

It may because of the forced filename header that is used to set the name to be saved as..



HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/octet-stream
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=outlook_setup.reg

<file>It may not be liking Contenet-Dispostition line. Which version of IE are you using? Also, are you using any sort of proxy that may be filtering the header?

John

[Webcart]

Hello and thank you for your reply.

I am using IE 5.0 (which is default for Windows 2000) running on
Windows 2000 SP4.

No proxies, but may be it's worth mentioning that I am using secure connection to DA.

[DirectAdmin Support]

I'll give our copy a test with https, and we'll see if I can duplicate it. I'll let you know if I find anything.

John

[Webcart]

Thank you.

I meanwhile checked it on Windows XP, IE6 SP1.
Same result.

[toml]

Originally posted by DirectAdmin Support
Hello,

It may because of the forced filename header that is used to set the name to be saved as..



HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/octet-stream
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=outlook_setup.reg

<file>It may not be liking Contenet-Dispostition line. Which version of IE are you using? Also, are you using any sort of proxy that may be filtering the header?

John

I had a similar problem with site I was writing. Downloads worked great for Mozilla with the headers above, but IE had problems with it. After tweaking the headers a lot, I found a combination that worked on both IE and Mozilla. The one's I used were:

Content-Type: application/force-download
Content-Type: application/octet-stream
Content-Type: application/download
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=filename.xxx;


I don't remember which one was the one that made it work, but you may want to play with them a bit.

[DirectAdmin Support]

Hello,

Thanks, I'll give those a try (although I don't get any errors currently, so hard to debug that which isn't generating errors :) )

John

[Webcart]

Hello,

I was wondering whether there was any progress on this issue, it seems like many users have difficulty adopting the idea of using full e-mail address as username and I was hoping this could save us a lot of support requests.

Thank you.

[DirectAdmin Support]

Hello,

Yes, it was implemented a while ago and should be available for the next release.

http://www.directadmin.com/features.php?id=315

John

[iTec]

I have the latest version on my server and I am getting this error using IE6. As are my clients. Is this bug now fixed or is this a problem just affecting my server now?

[DirectAdmin Support]

Ah, that's IE's inability to parse the domain at the end of the link (stupid IE). I'll add "& nothing=yes" (minus the space) to the end of the request link to satisfy IE's bugs :).

John