On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, Magnus Heino wrote:

I have a site setup, using https.

I have a form, that when submitted redirects to a file, which is downloaded.

This works using Mozilla, Netscape, curl and wget. IE fails with "The requested site is either unavailabe or cannot be found".

The Location in the HTTP 302 redirect is absolute.

Go check the microsoft knowledge base IE can not redirect to a lot of kinds of files and also can't do content-disposition well enough to do that either. However I have not found any other browser that has that limitation. What I have found that I had to use to get consistent results was handing IE and page with a meta-refresh tag that told it to grab another url in 0 seconds and then it works all the time. With content-disposition IE behaves in two ways depending on if certain patches are involved and giving IE a bad content type as suggested in the microsoft knowledge base does not work on all patch versions. Overall as a general comment I HATE THE IE HTTP implemenation since even lynx does a better job!