[NTLUG:Discuss] Downloading with IE

[Leroy Tennison]

steve wrote:
> Dennis Rice wrote:
>   
>> For my site, dearroz.com, I have my book for all to download.  For some 
>> reason one can not download the files when using IE, but it works great 
>> when using Firefox.
>>
>> Does anyone have any clues as to what may be wrong either with my site 
>> code or IE?
>>     
>
> Well, at a guess I'd say that it's something to do with it being an
> 'ftp:' protocol download.
>
> That doesn't seem such a terrible thing to me - but it's unusual to
> see ftp: URL's these days and perhaps it has a problem with that?
>
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Just a suggestion, can you do a packet capture?  I doubt you can on the 
server end but do you have a network at home or school where you could 
have a Linux and Windows machine on the same subnet?  Using 
Etherreal/WireShark to get a trace might be most illuminating.  The 
packet-level responses might be very clear.  Particularly, if this is 
really ftp and not http, you may get some good information because ftp 
responses are plain text.