Streaming Excel & Word Files to IE

• From: Mark Hourani <mhourani@zyga.com>
• Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 15:55:34 -0500
• To: "'http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com'" <http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com>
• Message-Id: <01BD42CE.F9C7D0C0.mhourani@zyga.com>

Hello,
We have a cgi program that streams documents across the web using HTTP 1.0. 
 When we stream an HTTP Document to Internet Explorer 3.02 that has a 
content type of application/msword or application/vnd.ms-excel the plugins 
for Word and Excel both try to load the URL a second time after it has been 
streamed to the browser.  In essence the document is sent twice.

Does anyone know of a solution or reason for this behavior?  We have one 
machine that this does NOT happen on, so there seems that there may be a 
way to configure IE or Word to not call the URL twice.

Thanks in advance.

Mark

Received on Thursday, 26 February 1998 13:01:41 UTC