Thanks for the info regarding the nature of the bug. Unfortunately I can't change the URL for a few reasons. Also changing the disposition to "inline" from "attachment", didn't help either. I think the only option left is to post a warning to IE users... -jim -----Original Message----- From: Thierry Florac [mailto:thierry.florac@onf.fr] Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 10:15 AM To: Jim Kutter; Gilles Lenfant; zope@zope.org Subject: Re: [Zope] Re: MSIE 6 not opening MIME attachments On Monday 12 January 2004 16:03, Jim Kutter wrote:

Thanks, but still no luck.

Hi, IE only is responsible of this bug : if you specify a "filename" parameter in the "Content-Disposition" header, then IE doesn't open the file (you may have the same kind of problem with PDF or DOC files). This problem which appeared in IE 5.0 disappeared with IE 5.5 and came back in IE 6. Just remove the "filename" option and everything should be OK (but you should keep a good extension in your URL, otherwise it should fail also, depending on your client OS configuration). Thierry

-----Original Message----- From: Gilles Lenfant [mailto:glenfant@bigfoot.com] Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 7:34 PM To: zope@zope.org Subject: [Zope] Re: MSIE 6 not opening MIME attachments

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I'm trying to send a CSV via a python script. My problem is in IE 6, if the user clicks on "Open" instead of save from the dialog that appears, Excel will launch, but not find the file in the Temporary Internet Files folder. Clicking on "Save" then opening the file manually works just fine.

Is this a problem with my response headers or an IE bug?

Here are the headers I'm sending:

response.setHeader('Content-Type', 'text/csv') response.setHeader('Content-Length', len(printed)) response.setHeader('Content-Disposition', 'attachment; filename=%s' % filename)

return printed

Hi Jim,

This works for me...

RESPONSE.setHeader('Content-Type', 'text/comma-separated-values; charset=ISO-8859-1') RESPONSE.setHeader('Content-Disposition', 'attachement; filename=sometable.csv')

... even when omiting 'Content-Length' header.

Hope this helps

-- Gilles