: Issue Opening/Saving Word Docs in IE7 and IE8 I'm working on a flex app that relates documents (pdfs, images, etc) with events. When i click the document link in my app for PDFs, images, text

@Hamaas447

Your webserver might not be sending the appropriate headers. If memory serves you need to send:

Content-Type: application/msword
Content-Length: <file size in bytes>
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="<file name>"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary
Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0


If this doesn't do the trick try adding a Pragma and Expires header.

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@Steve110

IE has had trouble with this sort of thing in the past. I feel like ever year or so I need to change around some of the headers associated with documents a browser cannot generally embed. Cache stuff usually. You are not using https for these transactions perchance? Is it the same .doc file or is it across multiple different .docs? Are you sending the filename in a "Content-Disposition" header? Strange characters in there could gum up the works.

These bugs are my personal Groundhog Day: usually fiddling with the headers are the way to go.

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